Get geographic location information for an IP address including country, city, coordinates, timezone, and postal code. Can look up any IPv4 or IPv6 address, or your own IP if no address is provided.
AI agents call lookup_ip_address_location to retrieve information from IPLocate without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves geolocation data for IP addresses without side effects. It performs a query/lookup operation that returns read-only information (country, city, coordinates, timezone, postal code). There is no capability to modify, delete, execute code, or affect financial systems. The severity is low because geolocation data is generally public information, and misuse would have minimal blast radius.
From the tool's definition Tool description explicitly states it 'Get[s] geographic location information' and 'look[s] up' IP addresses—purely retrieval operations with no modification, deletion, or execution capabilities.
Documented attack patterns abuse exactly the kind of access lookup_ip_address_location gives an agent:
PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway — it sits between your AI agents and IPLocate, and nothing reaches the server without passing your rules. This is the rule we recommend for lookup_ip_address_location:
{
"version": "1",
"default": "deny",
"tools": {
"lookup_ip_address_location": {}
}
}lookup_ip_address_location is read-only, so it stays allowed — but everything else on the server is denied unless you say otherwise.
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Get geographic location information for an IP address including country, city, coordinates, timezone, and postal code. Can look up any IPv4 or IPv6 address, or your own IP if no address is provided. It is categorised as a Read tool in the IPLocate MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the IPLocate MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for lookup_ip_address_location: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches IPLocate. Nothing to install.
lookup_ip_address_location is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the lookup_ip_address_location rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for lookup_ip_address_location. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
lookup_ip_address_location is provided by the IPLocate MCP server (iplocate/mcp-server-iplocate). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
Start from IPLocate, add the rest of your stack, and see everything your agents can call. Then put policy on all of it.
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