ssh_session_download_content

What ssh_session_download_content does on Zebbern Kali MCP

AI agents call ssh_session_download_content to retrieve information from Zebbern Kali MCP without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why ssh_session_download_content is rated Low

This tool performs data retrieval (Read category) with no side effects on the target system. However, the severity is high rather than low because: (1) it operates on remote systems via SSH, (2) when combined with other tools in the Kali toolkit (ad_psexec, ad_wmiexec, ad_secretsdump), it could exfiltrate sensitive data or credentials from compromised hosts, and (3) in a penetration testing context, unauthorized…

From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'Download file content from a remote host via SSH as base64' — this retrieves data from a remote system with no modification or deletion.

The rule that runs ssh_session_download_content 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 ssh_session_download_content, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "ssh_session_download_content": {}
  }
}

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