High-risk tools in Entrez MCP Server
2 of the 24 tools in Entrez MCP Server are classified as high risk. This page profiles those tools specifically, with recommended policy actions and the attack patterns that target them.
Every operation listed below is an action PolicyLayer recommends controlling at the transport layer. Open any tool to see the full profile, risk score, and YAML policy snippet.
Tools at high risk
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blast_submitExecuteSubmit sequences for BLAST similarity searching against NCBI databases. Supports all BLAST programs (blastn, blastp, blastx, tblastn, tblastx) with customizable parameters. Retu...
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query_staged_dataExecuteExecute SQL queries against previously staged Entrez datasets. Query the relational database created by efetch_and_stage with full SQL support including JOINs, aggregations, and...
Attacks that target this class
High-risk tools in any server share these documented attack patterns. Each links to the full case and the defensive policy.