dependency-auditor

@guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor

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An MCP server that audits npm and pip manifests against the OSV database for known CVEs. A single-package lookup also covers PyPI, crates.io, Maven, Go, and RubyGems.

Telemetry is off by default. With GUARDBEE_TELEMETRY=1 it sends the server, tool, success, duration and short parameter values such as a file path; longer strings and fields like content, token or password are replaced with a placeholder. See @guardbee/mcp-telemetry.

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Features

• OSV API Integration — Google's open-source vulnerability database (free, no authentication required)
• npm Support — reads exact versions from package-lock.json / npm-shrinkwrap.json (v1/v2/v3), pnpm-lock.yaml (v5/v6/v9), yarn.lock (v1 and Berry) and bun.lock, falling back to package.json ranges. Transitive packages are included, and dev-only packages are told apart even when the lockfile does not mark them (pnpm v9, yarn, bun)
• Rust, Go, Ruby, PHP — Cargo.lock (dev crates from Cargo.toml), go.mod (// indirect and replace aware), Gemfile.lock (platform builds merged, dev groups from the Gemfile) and composer.lock (packages-dev), audited by audit and the audit_directory tool
• pip Support — reads exact versions from uv.lock, poetry.lock and Pipfile.lock (dev groups separated), falling back to requirements.txt, requirements/base.txt, requirements/prod.txt, and pyproject.toml
• Malicious Package Detection — known-malicious releases (OpenSSF MAL-* entries and advisories classified CWE-506, e.g. the hijacked [email protected] / [email protected] of September 2025) are reported first as critical, with a removal and credential-rotation action, and fail any --fail-on threshold
• Exploit Prioritization — findings are enriched with CISA KEV (exploited in the wild, ransomware use) and FIRST EPSS (probability of exploitation in 30 days) and ordered malware → KEV → severity → EPSS. Gate CI on them with --fail-on-kev / --fail-on-epss=<0-1> (--fail-on=none turns the severity gate off). Only CVE IDs are sent; --no-exploit-data or exploit-data: false in guardbee.yml turns it off
• Severity Scoring — Critical / High / Medium / Low based on CVSS score or a text heuristic
• Fix Plan — one upgrade per package: the smallest listed version that clears every advisory (e.g. log4j-core 2.14.1 → 2.25.4 (fixes 7/7)), with advisories that stay open and major-version jumps called out. Per-finding fixes follow the installed release line (next-auth 5.0.0-beta.31 → 5.0.0-beta.32, not 4.24.15), using SemVer, PEP 440 or Maven-style version ordering
• CVE Links — direct links to NVD or osv.dev
• Dependency Paths — each finding shows how the package gets installed ([email protected] › [email protected]), and the fix plan names the direct dependency to bump (← via [email protected]). Available for package-lock.json v2/v3, pnpm, yarn, bun and uv lockfiles
• De-duplicated Findings — advisories that alias each other (GHSA + PYSEC, GHSA + MAL) are merged into one finding; ignore lists match any of their IDs
• Tests — unit tests with lockfiles generated by the real package managers and a fake OSV API

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Quick Start

npm install -g @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "guardbee-dependency-auditor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor"]
    }
  }
}

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MCP Tools

Tool	Description
audit_npm	Audits npm dependencies (package-lock, pnpm, yarn, bun lockfiles or package.json)
audit_pip	Audits Python dependencies (uv, Poetry, Pipenv lockfiles or requirements.txt / pyproject.toml)
audit_package	Audits a single package by name, version, and ecosystem
audit_directory	Auto-detects and audits all supported manifest files

Example Usage

You can ask Claude:

"Audit my project's npm dependencies: /Users/me/my-app"

"Is there a CVE for lodash 4.17.20?"

"Scan my Python project: /Users/me/django-app"

Example Output

⚠️  Found 3 vulnerabilities in 2/142 npm packages (1243ms)
   Critical: 1  High: 1  Medium: 1  Low: 0  Unknown: 0

[CRITICAL] [email protected]
  ID      : GHSA-35jh-r3h4-6jhm (CVE-2021-23337)
  Summary : Command injection via template
  Fix     : upgrade to [email protected]
  Details : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23337

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Supported Ecosystems

The audit_package tool can query these ecosystems directly:

Ecosystem	Parameter
npm	npm
Python	PyPI
Rust	crates.io
Java	Maven
Go	Go
Ruby	RubyGems

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CLI — CI/CD Integration

In addition to MCP server mode, this can also be used directly as a CLI:

# Audit all dependencies in a directory (npm + pip auto-detected)
npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit ./my-project

# npm only
npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit-npm . --fail-on=critical

# pip only
npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit-pip . --fail-on=high

# Single package
npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit-pkg lodash 4.17.20 npm

# JSON output
npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit . --format=json

# Fail only on what attackers actually use: CISA KEV, or EPSS ≥ 10%
npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit . --fail-on=none --fail-on-kev --fail-on-epss=0.1

Exit codes: 0 = clean · 1 = findings above threshold · 2 = error

GitHub Actions

name: Dependency Audit
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  audit:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
        with:
          node-version: 20
      - run: npm ci
      - name: Audit dependencies
        run: npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit . --fail-on=high

GitLab CI

dependency-audit:
  image: node:20
  script:
    - npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit . --fail-on=high
  only:
    - merge_requests
    - main

Pre-commit Hook

# .git/hooks/pre-push
npx @guardbee/mcp-dependency-auditor audit . --fail-on=critical || exit 1

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Development

npm install
npm test          # 20 unit tests
npm run build     # TypeScript compile

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License

MIT — GuardBee

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