MCP Security Documentation

Comprehensive security rules and best practices for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers.

📖 Table of Contents

• 📚 What's Included
• 🚀 Quick Start
• 📋 Documentation
• 🔐 Security Rules
• 📂 Directory Structure
• 🤖 Automation
• 📊 Standards
• 📄 Languages
• 📝 License
• 🤝 Contributing
• 🔒 Security Policy

🚀 Quick Start

# Read documentation
cat docs/en/sec-rules/SEC-001.md

# Generate PDFs locally
chmod +x scripts/generate-pdfs.sh
./scripts/generate-pdfs.sh

# Push to GitHub
git init
git add .
git commit -m "docs: add MCP security documentation"
git remote add origin https://github.com/YOUR_USER/mcp-security.git
git branch -M main
git push -u origin main

📋 Documentation

• START-HERE.md - Quick orientation guide
• docs/INDEX.md - Complete rules index
• CONTRIBUTING.md - How to contribute
• SECURITY.md - Security policy

🔐 Security Rules

All 12 rules with vulnerable/secure code examples:

🔴 Critical (4)

• SEC-001: Authentication Bypass
• SEC-002: Command Injection
• SEC-003: SQL Injection
• SEC-006: Insecure Deserialization

🟠 High (5)

• SEC-004: Server-Side Request Forgery
• SEC-005: XML External Entity
• SEC-007: Path Traversal
• SEC-009: Sensitive Data Exposure
• SEC-012: Weak Cryptography

🟡 Medium (3)

• SEC-008: Data Leakage in Responses
• SEC-010: Missing Rate Limiting
• SEC-011: Regular Expression DoS

📂 Directory Structure

mcp-security/
├── docs/
│   ├── INDEX.md
│   ├── en/sec-rules/        (12 English rules)
│   ├── es/sec-rules/        (12 Spanish rules)
│   ├── es/README.es.md      (Spanish introduction)
│   └── pdf/                 (auto-generated PDFs)
├── scripts/generate-pdfs.sh
├── .github/workflows/pdf-generation.yml
└── LICENSE (MIT)

🤖 Automation

GitHub Actions automatically:

• Generates PDFs from markdown
• Validates markdown syntax
• Runs security checks
• Creates release artifacts

📊 Standards

✅ OWASP Top 10 2021
✅ SOC2 Type II (CC6, CC7)
✅ HIPAA §164.312
✅ PCI DSS v4.0
✅ CWE/MITRE 13 weakness IDs

📄 Languages

• English: Primary documentation (docs/en/)
• Spanish: Full translation (docs/es/)

📝 License

MIT License - Free for commercial and personal use

🤝 Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

🔒 Security Policy

Found a vulnerability? See SECURITY.md

Version: 1.0.0
Status: Production Ready
Last Updated: January 25, 2026