Get abuse contact information for an IP address to report malicious activity. Includes email, phone, and address of the network administrator. Can look up any IPv4 or IPv6 address, or your own IP if no address is provided.
AI agents call lookup_ip_address_abuse_contacts to retrieve information from IPLocate MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This is a read-only lookup tool that queries and returns contact information from the IPLocate.io API. It performs intelligence gathering on IP addresses (geolocation, network details, privacy status) without altering any data. The ability to retrieve abuse contacts for any IP address presents minimal risk; the contacts themselves are typically public information intended for reporting purposes.
From the tool's definition Tool retrieves abuse contact information for IP addresses—email, phone, and address data. The description uses query language: "Get", "look up", "retrieve". No modifications, deletions, or side effects are described.
Risk signalsAdmin/system-level operation
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get abuse contact information for an IP address to report malicious activity. Includes email, phone, and address of the network administrator. 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 MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the IPLocate MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for lookup_ip_address_abuse_contacts: 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 MCP Server. Nothing to install.
lookup_ip_address_abuse_contacts 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_abuse_contacts 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_abuse_contacts. 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_abuse_contacts is provided by the IPLocate MCP Server MCP server (kunw4r/mcp-server-iplocate). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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