ad_psexec

What ad_psexec does on Zebbern Kali MCP

AI agents invoke ad_psexec to trigger actions in Zebbern Kali MCP. What it does depends on the arguments the agent supplies, and its effects often reach beyond the immediate call: builds kicked off, notifications sent, workflows started.

Why ad_psexec is rated High

PSExec is a Sysinternals/impacket tool that enables remote command execution on Windows hosts using SMB/admin shares. Even with an empty description, the tool name unambiguously refers to remote code execution capability. Combined with the server context (Kali Linux pentesting toolkit, sibling tools like ad_secretsdump, ad_wmiexec, ad_password_spray), this is almost certainly a remote execution tool.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'ad_psexec' on a Kali Linux penetration testing MCP server. PSExec is a well-known remote execution utility used to run processes on remote Windows systems, typically used in lateral movement and post-exploitation scenarios.

The rule that runs ad_psexec safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Zebbern Kali MCP, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For ad_psexec, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "ad_psexec": {
      "limits": [
        {
          "counter": "ad_psexec_rate",
          "window": "minute",
          "max": 10,
          "scope": "grant"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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