Is PDF MCP server safe?
Yes, with the usual care.
Passed every safety check we run. Maintained, authenticated, reachable, clean scan.
No critical or high findings in the latest scan.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.3 · 2026-09-19 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 medium
- Code scan96 source files scanned20/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
- Maintenancelast push 0 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (1)
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-truepdf_mcp-3.3.0/src/pdf_mcp/extractor.py: …scovery (which PyMuPDF does via fragile shell=True on Windows). _TESSDATA_PATH: str | None…
Overall 85/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
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