MCP - User discovered excessive permissions exposed by MCP inte...

User discovered excessive permissions exposed by MCP integrations, including ability to execute arbitrary SQL and delete repositories.

Updated: 3/26/2026
high Severity
Status: active

Description

I tried something simple last month. Connected a Postgres MCP to one of our bots. Wanted read access. The server also exposed DELETE, execute arbitrary SQL, and DROP TABLE. GitHub MCP — added for code reading. Also had delete_repository. Slack MCP — wanted search. Got https://t.co/1gDzJiJD2C

Impact

User discovered excessive permissions exposed by MCP integrations, including ability to execute arbitrary SQL and delete repositories.

Attack Vectors

  • Postgres integration
  • Slack integration

Mitigation

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