search_accounts
AI agents call search_accounts to retrieve information from Salesforce Basic MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
search_accounts retrieves/queries account data from Salesforce with no side effects. No modification, deletion, execution, or financial operations occur. Severity is medium rather than low due to potential sensitive business data exposure (customer accounts), though the blast radius is limited to read-only access.
From the tool's definition Tool name 'search_accounts' and sibling tools like 'get_account', 'get_closed_won_opportunities', 'get_recent_opportunities' indicate data retrieval operations.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
search_accounts. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Salesforce Basic MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Salesforce Basic MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for search_accounts: 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 Salesforce Basic MCP Server. Nothing to install.
search_accounts 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 search_accounts 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 search_accounts. 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.
search_accounts is provided by the Salesforce Basic MCP Server MCP server (luis-e-dev/my-new-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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