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OWASP MCP Top 10 | OWASP Foundation
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OWASP MCP Top 10 | OWASP Foundation

The OWASP MCP Top 10 (2025) is a living-document taxonomy of the ten most critical vulnerability classes affecting Model Context Protocol-based AI systems, covering issues like token mismanagement, privilege escalation via scope creep, tool poisoning, MCP-specific supply chain and dependency tampering, command injection, prompt injection via contextual payloads, weak authN/authZ, missing audit/telemetry, shadow MCP servers, and context injection/over-sharing. It targets AI/ML developers and security practitioners building agentic, model-chaining, and multi-modal MCP deployments, giving them a common vocabulary and checklist for secure design and auditing analogous to the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.

TL;DR OWASP's official Top 10 list of critical security risks in Model Context Protocol (MCP) systems, from tool poisoning to shadow MCP servers.

Techniques named here

  • MCP01:2025 - Token Mismanagement & Secret Exposure
  • MCP02:2025 - Privilege Escalation via Scope Creep
  • MCP03:2025 - Tool Poisoning
  • MCP05:2025 - Command Injection & Execution
  • MCP06:2025 - Prompt Injection via Contextual Payloads
  • MCP07:2025 - Insufficient Authentication & Authorization
  • MCP08:2025 - Lack of Audit and Telemetry
  • MCP09:2025 - Shadow MCP Servers
  • MCP10:2025 - Context Injection & Over-Sharing