# `io.github.cyanheads/nist-nvd-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/nist-nvd-mcp-server
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads/nist-nvd-mcp-server
- Version: 0.3.2 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/nist-nvd-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:28:53.733Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Search and audit NIST NVD CVEs by keyword, severity, CWE, CISA KEV status, and CPE.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:16:20.943Z over streamable-http.

**5 tools: 5 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 5 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (5)

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

### `nvd_audit_cpe`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Find all CVEs affecting a specific product and version using CPE (Common Platform Enumeration). Requires either an exact CPE name (cpeName) or a partial match string (virtualMatchString) with optional version range bounds. With cpeName, NVD scopes results to configurations where the product is directly vulnerable, not merely referenced as a dependency. Use nvd_search_cpes first to resolve the correct CPE string for a product. Returns full CVE records.
```

### `nvd_get_cve`

- The name "nvd_get_cve" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch one or more CVEs by ID from the NIST National Vulnerability Database. Returns CVSS scores across all available versions (v2.0, v3.0, v3.1, v4.0), CWE weakness classifications, affected CPE configurations, CISA KEV fields, and references. Up to 100 CVE IDs per call. For bulk lookups of more than 10 IDs, use brief: true — full records for 100 CVEs can exceed 1MB and exhaust context budgets.
```

### `nvd_get_cve_history`

- The name "nvd_get_cve_history" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Retrieve the change history for a single CVE — CVSS score revisions, reference additions, status transitions (e.g., "Received" → "Analyzed"), and CPE configuration updates. Use when tracking a CVE's escalation or investigating when a score changed. Events are returned newest-first by default; pass order="oldest" for the CVE's earliest events. For the current record, call nvd_get_cve instead. The NVD history endpoint is significantly slower than other NVD endpoints, especially without an API key — set NVD_API_KEY for reliable operation.
```

### `nvd_search_cpes`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search the NVD CPE (Common Platform Enumeration) dictionary by product keyword or partial match string. Returns CPE names, human-readable titles, and deprecation status. Use before nvd_audit_cpe to resolve the correct CPE name for a product — CPE strings are precise identifiers (e.g., cpe:2.3:a:apache:http_server:2.4.51:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) and must match exactly to audit the right product.
```

### `nvd_search_cves`

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

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search CVEs by keyword, severity, CWE, date range, or CISA KEV status. The primary discovery tool for vulnerability surveillance and triage workflows. pubDays and lastModDays are convenience shorthands that expand to date pairs; values over 120 days are clamped to the NVD maximum and reported in the response enrichment. Returns brief summaries — call nvd_get_cve for full detail on specific IDs. At least one filter is recommended; omitting all filters returns CVEs in default NVD index order (oldest first by CVE ID).
```

## Claude Code permissions

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

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__nist-nvd__nvd_get_cve",
      "mcp__nist-nvd__nvd_search_cves",
      "mcp__nist-nvd__nvd_audit_cpe",
      "mcp__nist-nvd__nvd_search_cpes",
      "mcp__nist-nvd__nvd_get_cve_history"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```