check_security_scan_progress
AI agents call check_security_scan_progress to retrieve information from Burp Suite MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool retrieves the current progress/status of an ongoing security scan—a read-only operation with no side effects. Even though the description is empty, the name strongly suggests passive monitoring rather than triggering, modifying, or deleting data. The confidence is slightly reduced due to lack of explicit description, but the pattern matches Read operations.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'check_security_scan_progress' indicates a status check operation that monitors scan state without modifying data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
check_security_scan_progress. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Burp Suite MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Burp Suite MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for check_security_scan_progress: 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 Burp Suite MCP Server. Nothing to install.
check_security_scan_progress 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 check_security_scan_progress 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 check_security_scan_progress. 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.
check_security_scan_progress is provided by the Burp Suite MCP Server MCP server (jayluxferro/burp-mcp). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
check_security_scan_progress is one line of Burp Suite MCP Server's registry record.
The record carries the whole server: verified identity, auth posture, risk grade, every tool classified, recommended policy — re-checked continuously.
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