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pith:CGAISUAE

pith:2026:CGAISUAEVSANQECFSA2U4DGWA4

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From Component Manipulation to System Compromise: Understanding and Detecting Malicious MCP Servers

Bihuan Chen, Susheng Wu, Xin Hu, Xin Peng, Yiheng Cao, Yiheng Huang, Zhijia Zhao, Zhuotong Zhou

arxiv:2604.01905 v2 · 2026-04-02 · cs.CR · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{CGAISUAEVSANQECFSA2U4DGWA4}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-05-20T01:05:12.413572Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1180895004ac80d8104590354e0cd60724ed504c2de1c33727474cf7673b12de

Aliases

arxiv: 2604.01905 · arxiv_version: 2604.01905v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2604.01905 · pith_short_12: CGAISUAEVSAN · pith_short_16: CGAISUAEVSANQECF · pith_short_8: CGAISUAE

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/CGAISUAEVSANQECFSA2U4DGWA4 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 1180895004ac80d8104590354e0cd60724ed504c2de1c33727474cf7673b12de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5417d668169c624a7415de78fd91170cc985db4b653b1f9ba7c38805d253454e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.SE"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CR",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-02T11:22:07Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a72ed65c92b6e1918c2e427fb1232f02829c0d2c50adfde6ce6d8a00c7a0a3c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2604.01905",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}