# `io.github.cyanheads/first-epss-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/first-epss-mcp-server
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads/first-epss-mcp-server
- Version: 0.1.3 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/first-epss-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-24T21:17:41.164Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Look up FIRST EPSS scores and daily history, find CVEs by threshold, and prioritize them with CVSS.
```

Scanned 2026-10-24T21:17:58.576Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 1 change things and 4 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 1 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | 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__first-epss__epss_get_scores` `mcp__first-epss__epss_get_timeseries` `mcp__first-epss__epss_prioritize_cves` `mcp__first-epss__epss_query_threshold` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

- **warn** Annotations that disagree with the tool in `epss_prioritize_cves` ([annotation-conflict](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#annotation-conflict))

```untrusted-server-text
The server marks "epss_prioritize_cves" read-only (readOnlyHint: true), and its own name, description or input give the class "write".

annotations: {"readOnlyHint":true,"idempotentHint":true,"openWorldHint":true}; The description's first verb is "assign": a word for a change.
```


## Changes things (1)

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

### `epss_prioritize_cves`

- The description's first verb is "assign": a word for a change.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.
- Findings: warn annotation-conflict

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Assign remediation tiers using latest or dated EPSS and caller-supplied CVSS base severity. Defaults are severity >= 7 and EPSS probability >= 0.10; select percentile explicitly for population rank. Missing severity stays in epssOnly and missing EPSS stays unscored. Thresholds are policy conventions, not FIRST guidance. Process up to 500 unique entries from batchOffset, returning whole entries within the byte budget. Resume using nextBatchOffset as batchOffset, the original cves with original cvssBaseScore values, returned score date as date, and the same severityThreshold and likelihood. Deferred lists may be declared previews; withheldCves were already processed.
```

## Only reads (4)

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

### `epss_get_scores`

- The name "epss_get_scores" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Retrieve latest available or historically dated FIRST EPSS probability and percentile for supplied CVEs. Process up to 500 unique entries from batchOffset; response byte limits can return fewer whole entries. Resume with nextBatchOffset as batchOffset, the original cves and returned score date as date. deferredCves were not queried; withheldCves were processed but omitted, and either list can be a declared preview. Missing scores remain unknown; use epss_list_reference for coverage and interpretation.
```

### `epss_get_timeseries`

- The name "epss_get_timeseries" says "get": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Retrieve an EPSS anchor and up to 30 preceding daily observations for up to 50 unique CVEs from batchOffset. Response byte limits retain whole history items. Resume CVE batches with nextBatchOffset as batchOffset, the original cves and returned score date as date; withheldCves were processed, deferredCves were not queried, and lists can be declared previews. Exact 7-day and 30-day deltas require their calendar baselines; gaps remain unknown. Model boundaries do not explain score movement. Re-anchor using previousAnchorDate for the preceding history window; that snapshot may be unavailable.
```

### `epss_list_reference`

- The name "epss_list_reference" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Explain FIRST EPSS interpretation, model publishing dates, lookup coverage and transparent prioritization policy. Use this static reference before interpreting missing scores, score movement or probability versus percentile thresholds.
```

### `epss_query_threshold`

- The name "epss_query_threshold" says "query": a word for reading.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Discover CVEs using inclusive EPSS or percentile bounds, CVE year or dataset-addition recency; filters intersect and at least one is required. Examine one candidate page ordered by EPSS descending. Each serialized response surface fits 65536 UTF-8 bytes; budgetLimited and withheldCount disclose whole matches withheld, with nextOffset at the first withheld match. Year filtering can return an empty page with nextOffset; candidateTotal is a broad-query total, not an exact-year total. Continue with the same filters, limit, returned score date and nextOffset.
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__first-epss__epss_get_scores",
      "mcp__first-epss__epss_get_timeseries",
      "mcp__first-epss__epss_query_threshold",
      "mcp__first-epss__epss_list_reference"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__first-epss__epss_prioritize_cves"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

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

- `mcp__first-epss__epss_get_scores`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__first-epss__epss_get_timeseries`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__first-epss__epss_query_threshold`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__first-epss__epss_prioritize_cves`: untrusted-input