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Securing MCP Servers: Tool Permissions, Prompt Injection, and the Confused Deputy Problem

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TL;DR Securing MCP servers requires establishing explicit trust boundaries between language model reasoning, tool catalogs, and downstream enterprise APIs. Indirect prompt injection turns external data retrieval into untrusted code execution when tool outputs hijack model context without intermedia…

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  1. 2026-10-15 09:59 · DEV Community — AI
    Securing MCP Servers: Tool Permissions, Prompt Injection, and the Confused Deputy Problem

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