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+ Metadata-Version: 2.4
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+ Name: stranger-test
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+ Version: 0.0.1
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+ Summary: Tests MCP servers for cross-identity and delegated-authority (RFC 8693) authorization leaks.
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+ Author: Vedant Agarwal
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+ License-Expression: Apache-2.0
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+ Keywords: mcp,model-context-protocol,security,authorization,confused-deputy
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+ Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
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+ Classifier: Environment :: Console
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+ Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
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+ Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Security
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+ Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Testing
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+ Requires-Python: >=3.9
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+ Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
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+ License-File: LICENSE
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+ Dynamic: license-file
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+
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+ # Stranger Test
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+
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+ Stranger Test is a free, standard-library-only Python tool and library for
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+ testing **MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers** for cross-identity and
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+ delegated-authority authorization leaks.
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+
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+ An MCP server is a trusted middleman that usually holds many users' credentials
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+ and data. The question Stranger Test asks is simple: can one identity's data,
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+ events, or authority reach another identity through the server? We organise
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+ these failures into a taxonomy of 14 **XID** leak classes, and build detection
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+ ahead of a class becoming common rather than after. Two of the earliest-built
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+ detectors are:
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+
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+ - **XID-13** — cross-identity subscription/notification leak.
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+ - **XID-10** — delegation dropped or forged: the on-behalf-of / token-exchange
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+ confused-deputy problem.
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+
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+ ## Try it
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+
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+ See a leak caught in under a minute, with no third-party dependencies. This
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+ starts the bundled practice MCP subscription server on a loopback port and runs
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+ the XID-13 subscription probe against it — first in `leaky` mode, then in `safe`
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+ mode. From the repository root, with plain system Python:
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+
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+ ```
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+ python3 -m strangertest.demo
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+ ```
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+
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+ In `leaky` mode, identity B hears identity A's resource update — a leak:
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+
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+ ```
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+ Subscription-leak probe (XID-13) against the bundled practice server.
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+ B subscribes to A's resource; A changes it; did B hear about it?
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+
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+ [leaky] LEAK: identity 'B' received update notifications for 'note://alice/secret', a resource owned by identity 'A' — cross-identity subscription/notification leak.
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+ [safe] OK: identity 'B' received no notifications for 'A''s resource 'note://alice/secret'.
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+ ```
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+
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+ The `leaky` line is the detection; the `safe` line is the same probe reporting a
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+ correctly-scoped server clean.
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+
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+ ## How it works
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+
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+ Every probe is an **A/B probe**: act as identity **A**, observe as identity
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+ **B**, and check whether the line between them held.
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+
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+ - **Positive controls.** A probe first proves its observer actually works, so
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+ that "no leak" cannot be a false negative caused by a broken observer.
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+ - **An explicit `inconclusive` grade.** When the probe cannot observe what it
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+ needs — an undecodable delegated token, a stream that will not open, a server
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+ too old to carry the channel — it reports *inconclusive*, which is distinct
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+ from *no leak*. It never reports a leak it could not actually see, and never
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+ calls an unobservable server clean.
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+ - **Authorized-first.** Every probe passes the target through an authorization
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+ guard before any connection is made (see *Scope and safety* below).
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+
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+ The three probes:
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+
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+ 1. **Read probe** (`strangertest.probe`) — A plants a uniquely-marked record;
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+ B tries to read it back. If B sees A's marker, authority crossed identities.
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+ 2. **Subscription probe / XID-13** (`strangertest.subscribe`) — B opens a
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+ subscription stream on a resource owned by A; A then changes it. If B
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+ receives an update notification for A's resource, one identity's events
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+ reached another. Detection is exact-URI, exact-method — not a substring
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+ search — and the stream is opened and acknowledged *before* A acts, because
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+ the channel does not replay.
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+ 3. **Delegation probe / XID-10** (`strangertest.delegate`) — the server acts
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+ on behalf of a user against an upstream you control. The probe drives it as
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+ A, then B, then A again (the second A call catches a deputy that cached or
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+ bled B's token into A's request) and inspects what reached the upstream:
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+ subject preserved, acting agent present, audience correct, scope narrowed,
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+ a distinct token per principal, and no cross-identity bleed. Identity is
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+ `(issuer, subject)`, so two users named the same from different providers
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+ are not conflated.
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+
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+ **Transports** (`strangertest.transports`), standard library only: **stdio**
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+ (subprocess, newline-delimited JSON-RPC) and **Streamable HTTP** (JSON or SSE),
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+ including the 2026-07-28 "modern" per-request envelope.
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+
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+ ## Install and run
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+
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+ Requires Python 3.9+. The core library and unit tests use the standard library
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+ only — no third-party dependencies.
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+
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+ Unit tests, from the repository root:
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+
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+ ```
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+ python3 -m unittest discover
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+ ```
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+
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+ (106 tests.)
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+
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+ ## Integration gates
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+
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+ The integration "gates" in `integration/` exercise the probes end-to-end
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+ against real servers. They need extra dependencies (`pyjwt[crypto]`, plus the
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+ target server itself), are **not** run by `python3 -m unittest discover`, and
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+ skip cleanly when their dependencies are absent.
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+
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+ - **XID-13 subscription gate** — drives the subscription probe against the
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+ official MCP SDK subscriptions example server.
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+ - **XID-10 thin-deputy gate** (`integration/xid10_thin_deputy_gate.py`) — runs
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+ the delegation probe over a real RFC 8693 token exchange against a set of
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+ deliberately-broken deputy fixtures: `static_credential`, `token_passthrough`,
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+ `cached_token_reuse`, and a conflated-issuer case. Each is a known leak the
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+ probe must flag, for the right reason.
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+ - **XID-10 ContextForge gate** (`integration/xid10_contextforge_gate.py`) —
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+ drives the delegation probe through a real IBM ContextForge gateway doing
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+ RFC 8693 token exchange. Configured by `XID10_MODE`
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+ (`delegation` | `impersonation` | `two_issuers`) and `XID10_TRIGGER`
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+ (`tool` | `resource`).
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+ - **XID-10 agentgateway gate** (`integration/xid10_agentgateway_gate.py`) —
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+ drives the same delegation probe, same six checks and scenarios, through a
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+ second, unrelated third-party gateway: **agentgateway v1.7.0** (the official
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+ release binary, configured by its config file only). A second gateway so the
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+ probe's behaviour is not tied to any one implementation.
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+
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+ The setup recipes are in
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+ [`integration/CONTEXTFORGE_GATE.md`](integration/CONTEXTFORGE_GATE.md) and
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+ [`integration/AGENTGATEWAY_GATE.md`](integration/AGENTGATEWAY_GATE.md).
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+ Everything in the gates runs on localhost only.
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+
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+ ## A sample result
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+
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+ Run against a real **IBM ContextForge 1.1.1** gateway (macOS, Python 3.13); the
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+ same scenarios run against **agentgateway v1.7.0** with the same results:
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+
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+ - **Faithful delegation** grades clean — all checks pass.
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+ - **Impersonation** (no actor token) is flagged, because the exchanged token
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+ carries no acting-agent `act` claim, so the agent acting for the user is
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+ invisible.
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+ - **Two issuers** — two users both named `alice` from different providers are
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+ kept distinct through the exchange (distinct tokens, no cross-identity reuse);
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+ no conflation.
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+
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+ To be clear about what this does and does not show: **no vulnerability was found
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+ in either gateway.** The probe's ability to *detect* leaks is demonstrated by the
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+ deliberately-broken thin-deputy fixtures above, each of which the probe flags.
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+ A comparison against the older **1.0.6** release (to check a since-fixed
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+ historical behaviour) is noted as **future work** and has not yet been run.
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+
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+ ## Scope and safety
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+
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+ Point Stranger Test only at **localhost, servers you run, or targets you are
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+ explicitly authorized to test.** The authorization guard allows local
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+ development hosts (loopback, `.localhost`, `.test`) automatically and refuses
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+ every other target unless you pass explicit authorization recording who
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+ permitted the test. There is deliberately no "scan everything" mode: one target,
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+ one authorization.
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+
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+ Any real finding is for **private, responsible disclosure** to the server's
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+ owner. Do not name-and-shame.
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache-2.0 (see `LICENSE`).
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+ # Stranger Test
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+
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+ Stranger Test is a free, standard-library-only Python tool and library for
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+ testing **MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers** for cross-identity and
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+ delegated-authority authorization leaks.
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+
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+ An MCP server is a trusted middleman that usually holds many users' credentials
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+ and data. The question Stranger Test asks is simple: can one identity's data,
9
+ events, or authority reach another identity through the server? We organise
10
+ these failures into a taxonomy of 14 **XID** leak classes, and build detection
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+ ahead of a class becoming common rather than after. Two of the earliest-built
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+ detectors are:
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+
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+ - **XID-13** — cross-identity subscription/notification leak.
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+ - **XID-10** — delegation dropped or forged: the on-behalf-of / token-exchange
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+ confused-deputy problem.
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+
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+ ## Try it
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+
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+ See a leak caught in under a minute, with no third-party dependencies. This
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+ starts the bundled practice MCP subscription server on a loopback port and runs
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+ the XID-13 subscription probe against it — first in `leaky` mode, then in `safe`
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+ mode. From the repository root, with plain system Python:
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+
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+ ```
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+ python3 -m strangertest.demo
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+ ```
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+
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+ In `leaky` mode, identity B hears identity A's resource update — a leak:
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+
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+ ```
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+ Subscription-leak probe (XID-13) against the bundled practice server.
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+ B subscribes to A's resource; A changes it; did B hear about it?
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+
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+ [leaky] LEAK: identity 'B' received update notifications for 'note://alice/secret', a resource owned by identity 'A' — cross-identity subscription/notification leak.
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+ [safe] OK: identity 'B' received no notifications for 'A''s resource 'note://alice/secret'.
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+ ```
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+
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+ The `leaky` line is the detection; the `safe` line is the same probe reporting a
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+ correctly-scoped server clean.
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+
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+ ## How it works
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+
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+ Every probe is an **A/B probe**: act as identity **A**, observe as identity
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+ **B**, and check whether the line between them held.
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+
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+ - **Positive controls.** A probe first proves its observer actually works, so
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+ that "no leak" cannot be a false negative caused by a broken observer.
49
+ - **An explicit `inconclusive` grade.** When the probe cannot observe what it
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+ needs — an undecodable delegated token, a stream that will not open, a server
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+ too old to carry the channel — it reports *inconclusive*, which is distinct
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+ from *no leak*. It never reports a leak it could not actually see, and never
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+ calls an unobservable server clean.
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+ - **Authorized-first.** Every probe passes the target through an authorization
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+ guard before any connection is made (see *Scope and safety* below).
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+ The three probes:
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+ 1. **Read probe** (`strangertest.probe`) — A plants a uniquely-marked record;
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+ B tries to read it back. If B sees A's marker, authority crossed identities.
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+ 2. **Subscription probe / XID-13** (`strangertest.subscribe`) — B opens a
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+ subscription stream on a resource owned by A; A then changes it. If B
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+ receives an update notification for A's resource, one identity's events
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+ reached another. Detection is exact-URI, exact-method — not a substring
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+ search — and the stream is opened and acknowledged *before* A acts, because
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+ the channel does not replay.
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+ 3. **Delegation probe / XID-10** (`strangertest.delegate`) — the server acts
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+ on behalf of a user against an upstream you control. The probe drives it as
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+ A, then B, then A again (the second A call catches a deputy that cached or
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+ bled B's token into A's request) and inspects what reached the upstream:
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+ subject preserved, acting agent present, audience correct, scope narrowed,
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+ a distinct token per principal, and no cross-identity bleed. Identity is
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+ `(issuer, subject)`, so two users named the same from different providers
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+ are not conflated.
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+ **Transports** (`strangertest.transports`), standard library only: **stdio**
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+ (subprocess, newline-delimited JSON-RPC) and **Streamable HTTP** (JSON or SSE),
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+ including the 2026-07-28 "modern" per-request envelope.
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+ ## Install and run
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+ Requires Python 3.9+. The core library and unit tests use the standard library
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+ only — no third-party dependencies.
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+ Unit tests, from the repository root:
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+ ```
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+ python3 -m unittest discover
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+ ```
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+
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+ (106 tests.)
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+
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+ ## Integration gates
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+ The integration "gates" in `integration/` exercise the probes end-to-end
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+ against real servers. They need extra dependencies (`pyjwt[crypto]`, plus the
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+ target server itself), are **not** run by `python3 -m unittest discover`, and
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+ skip cleanly when their dependencies are absent.
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+ - **XID-13 subscription gate** — drives the subscription probe against the
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+ official MCP SDK subscriptions example server.
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+ - **XID-10 thin-deputy gate** (`integration/xid10_thin_deputy_gate.py`) — runs
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+ the delegation probe over a real RFC 8693 token exchange against a set of
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+ deliberately-broken deputy fixtures: `static_credential`, `token_passthrough`,
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+ `cached_token_reuse`, and a conflated-issuer case. Each is a known leak the
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+ probe must flag, for the right reason.
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+ - **XID-10 ContextForge gate** (`integration/xid10_contextforge_gate.py`) —
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+ drives the delegation probe through a real IBM ContextForge gateway doing
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+ RFC 8693 token exchange. Configured by `XID10_MODE`
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+ (`delegation` | `impersonation` | `two_issuers`) and `XID10_TRIGGER`
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+ (`tool` | `resource`).
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+ - **XID-10 agentgateway gate** (`integration/xid10_agentgateway_gate.py`) —
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+ drives the same delegation probe, same six checks and scenarios, through a
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+ second, unrelated third-party gateway: **agentgateway v1.7.0** (the official
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+ release binary, configured by its config file only). A second gateway so the
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+ probe's behaviour is not tied to any one implementation.
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+ The setup recipes are in
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+ [`integration/CONTEXTFORGE_GATE.md`](integration/CONTEXTFORGE_GATE.md) and
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+ [`integration/AGENTGATEWAY_GATE.md`](integration/AGENTGATEWAY_GATE.md).
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+ Everything in the gates runs on localhost only.
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+ ## A sample result
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+ Run against a real **IBM ContextForge 1.1.1** gateway (macOS, Python 3.13); the
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+ same scenarios run against **agentgateway v1.7.0** with the same results:
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+ - **Faithful delegation** grades clean — all checks pass.
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+ - **Impersonation** (no actor token) is flagged, because the exchanged token
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+ carries no acting-agent `act` claim, so the agent acting for the user is
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+ invisible.
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+ - **Two issuers** — two users both named `alice` from different providers are
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+ kept distinct through the exchange (distinct tokens, no cross-identity reuse);
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+ no conflation.
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+ To be clear about what this does and does not show: **no vulnerability was found
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+ in either gateway.** The probe's ability to *detect* leaks is demonstrated by the
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+ deliberately-broken thin-deputy fixtures above, each of which the probe flags.
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+ A comparison against the older **1.0.6** release (to check a since-fixed
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+ historical behaviour) is noted as **future work** and has not yet been run.
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+
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+ ## Scope and safety
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+ Point Stranger Test only at **localhost, servers you run, or targets you are
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+ explicitly authorized to test.** The authorization guard allows local
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+ development hosts (loopback, `.localhost`, `.test`) automatically and refuses
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+ every other target unless you pass explicit authorization recording who
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+ permitted the test. There is deliberately no "scan everything" mode: one target,
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+ one authorization.
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+ Any real finding is for **private, responsible disclosure** to the server's
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+ owner. Do not name-and-shame.
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache-2.0 (see `LICENSE`).
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+ name = "stranger-test"
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+ dynamic = ["version"]
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+ description = "Tests MCP servers for cross-identity and delegated-authority (RFC 8693) authorization leaks."
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+ readme = "README.md"
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+ requires-python = ">=3.9"
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+ license = "Apache-2.0"
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+ license-files = ["LICENSE"]
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+ authors = [{ name = "Vedant Agarwal" }]
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+ keywords = [
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+ "mcp",
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+ "model-context-protocol",
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+ "security",
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+ "authorization",
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+ "confused-deputy",
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+ ]
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+ dependencies = []
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+ classifiers = [
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+ "Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha",
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+ "Environment :: Console",
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+ "Intended Audience :: Developers",
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+ "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
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+ "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9",
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+ "Topic :: Security",
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+ "Topic :: Software Development :: Testing",
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+ ]
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+
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+ [project.scripts]
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+ strangertest = "strangertest.cli:main"
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+ packages = ["strangertest"]
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