MCP 'design flaw' puts 200k servers at risk and Anthropic won't fix it

submitted by rimu to programming 70 points | 5 comments https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/anthropic_mcp_design_flaw/

A design flaw – or expected behavior based on a bad design choice, depending on who is telling the story – baked into Anthropic’s official Model Context Protocol (MCP) puts as many as 200,000 servers at risk of complete takeover, according to security researchers.