# `com.808bits/fips-cmvp` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.808bits/fips-cmvp
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.808bits/fips-cmvp
- Version: 0.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.808bits (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/808bits/fips-mcp
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:47:30.836Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
FIPS 140 certificate tracker
Every NIST FIPS 140 certificate, plus the modules-in-process queue NIST publishes only as a page.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:32:39.419Z over streamable-http.

**6 tools: 3 change things and 3 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 3 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 3 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__fips-cmvp__fips_in_process` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (3)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `fips_cert`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Look up one FIPS 140 cryptographic module validation by certificate number. Returns status (active, historical or revoked), overall level, sunset date, validation history, approved algorithms and tested configurations.
```

### `fips_cve`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Which FIPS-validated modules are associated with a given CVE, or which CVEs are associated with a vendor's modules. Answers 'we have a validated module, is it caught up in this advisory'. The association is name-based against the product CPE, so read it as a pointer to check rather than a finding. An empty result means nothing matched by name, not that the module is unaffected: only 4 of the 712 active certificates carry any association at all, and historical ones are never scanned.
```

### `fips_vendor`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Everything one company holds, grouped across the spelling variants NIST filed it under. Cisco alone appears as three different strings. Returns a breakdown by status and standard plus the certificates themselves. Note this groups spellings of one registration, not corporate families: the nShield line sits under nCipher, Thales and Entrust separately, because the product changed owner. Groups large enough to have their own page on the tracker carry a tracker_url alongside the per-certificate ones.
```

## Only reads (3)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `fips_in_process`

- The description's first verb is "search": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The description's first sentence says "search" and "review": it reads comments, which other people can write.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search NIST's Modules in Process queue: submissions awaiting FIPS 140-3 validation, with the review phase each one is sitting in. Use this when a vendor claims a validation is 'coming' and you need to know whether it has actually been submitted, and how far along it is.
```

### `fips_search`

- The name "fips_search" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search FIPS 140 validations by module name or vendor. Use this to answer whether a given product or vendor holds a current validation, and at what level. Results are ordered by status, then how well they match, then newest first, so the current validations lead.
```

### `fips_sunset`

- The description's first verb is "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List active FIPS validations by sunset date, the day each moves to NIST's historical list and stops being valid for new procurement. Answers 'what expires before date X' and 'which vendors are about to have nothing valid'. A certificate listed here may already have a 140-3 successor: check fips_search for the same module name before reporting a gap.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `fips-cmvp`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__fips-cmvp__fips_search",
      "mcp__fips-cmvp__fips_in_process",
      "mcp__fips-cmvp__fips_sunset"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__fips-cmvp__fips_cert",
      "mcp__fips-cmvp__fips_vendor",
      "mcp__fips-cmvp__fips_cve"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__fips-cmvp__fips_in_process`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:26:28.917Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:26:28.917Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `3` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 3 tools that change things (3 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://fips.808bits.com/mcp: tools/list returned 6 tools to an anonymous client, including fips_cert (write), fips_vendor (write), fips_cve (write)
```