Kali Linux's Official MCP Server Has a Textbook Command Injection Vulnerability

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A security researcher found that the mcp-kali-server package - shipped in Kali's official repos - interpolates AI-supplied parameters directly into shell commands with shell=True, enabling trivial arbitrary command execution.

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