Get all employees from a department (with optional recursive search in child departments)
AI agents call bitrix_department_employees to retrieve information from Email 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 organizational data (employee listings by department) without creating, modifying, or deleting anything. It falls clearly under the Read category. Severity is medium rather than low because employee directories can contain sensitive personal information (names, roles, potentially contact details) that could be harvested for social engineering, phishing, or organizational reconnaissance if…
From the tool's definition Tool performs a retrieval operation ('Get all employees from a department') with no modification capability. The name contains 'get' which is a read operation, and the description explicitly states it retrieves employee data.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Get all employees from a department (with optional recursive search in child departments). It is categorised as a Read tool in the Email MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Email MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for bitrix_department_employees: 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 Email MCP Server. Nothing to install.
bitrix_department_employees 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 bitrix_department_employees 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 bitrix_department_employees. 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.
bitrix_department_employees is provided by the Email MCP Server MCP server (sventern/mcp_email). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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