Is CICADA 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.
How CICADA compares
Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 85/100
- higher than 70% of 48,255 servers
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-09-28 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
1 medium
- Code scan168 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 8 days ago15/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (1)
- mediumsubprocess with shell=True
exec.shell-truecicada_mcp-0.6.4/cicada/languages/typescript/indexer.py: …: Command uses list-form arguments (not shell=True), # so no command injection ris…
Overall 85/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON