MCP server official
Risk level
low
20/100

Alpha Vantage MCP Server ↗

Alpha Vantage MCP Server is an officially published MCP server from Alpha Vantage. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

network:outbound credentials:access

Analysis summary

Alpha Vantage MCP Server is an officially published MCP server from Alpha Vantage. Anomity scores its risk at 20 out of 100 (low).

Alpha Vantage's official server exposes realtime and historical market data — equities, ETFs, options, forex, crypto, commodities, fundamentals, and technical indicators — as agent tools.

Capabilities are outbound network access and credential access for the API key. Risk is low: the data flows inward, and the key grants no ability to trade. The failure mode is analytical rather than security-related, and worth naming because people deploy these for decisions — an agent that fetches a number and reasons about it can be confidently wrong about what the number means, and market data has a great many near-identical fields that mean different things.

Why this entry scored 20 out of 100

This profile starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50. Because the entry is officially published, trust adjusts the score by -40. Declared high-risk capabilities add +10 (capped at +30). It matches no dangerous capability combinations. The clamped result is 20, placing it in the low band.

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Findings

  • Published by the vendor Trust offset
    Contribution to score: -40
  • 1 high-risk capability: credentials:access High
    Contribution to score: +10

Capabilities

Every capability the entry declares, with the security implication of each.

  • network:outbound Outbound network
    Can make outbound network requests. Required for hosted model providers and remote APIs; also the path for data exfiltration if combined with read access.
  • credentials:access Credentials access
    Reads provider API keys, OAuth tokens, or other secrets from the host keychain or environment.