Get a comprehensive risk profile for a specific vendor. Shows total vulnerabilities, open vs patched breakdown, severity distribution, highest CVSS score, and lists all currently open vulnerabilities. Ideal for vendor risk assessment.
AI agents call get_vendor_risk_summary to retrieve information from Vulnerability Registry MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs only data retrieval and analysis operations—querying a vulnerability database to compile and display a risk profile. It has no side effects: it does not create, modify, delete, or execute code.
From the tool's definition Tool name is 'get_vendor_risk_summary' and description states it 'Shows total vulnerabilities, open vs patched breakdown, severity distribution, highest CVSS score, and lists all currently open vulnerabilities.' These are all read operations that retrieve and…
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Get a comprehensive risk profile for a specific vendor. Shows total vulnerabilities, open vs patched breakdown, severity distribution, highest CVSS score, and lists all currently open vulnerabilities. Ideal for vendor risk assessment. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Vulnerability Registry MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Vulnerability Registry MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for get_vendor_risk_summary: 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 Vulnerability Registry MCP Server. Nothing to install.
get_vendor_risk_summary 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 get_vendor_risk_summary 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 get_vendor_risk_summary. 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.
get_vendor_risk_summary is provided by the Vulnerability Registry MCP Server MCP server (orcohen5/vulnerability-registry). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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