obsidian-mcp

Item: obsidian-mcp
Rating: 29
Author: M8ven

Exposes an Obsidian vault with full-text and semantic search, and Anki-style spaced repetition active recall.

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// key findings

⚠️

Tool descriptions don’t match what handlers do

1 tool describes read intent but its handler mutates — get_vault_stats (line 310: execSync("git rev-parse --short HEAD", { cwd: vaultRoot, stdio: ["pipe", "pipe", "pipe"] }))

⚠️

Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 4 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: MCP_AUTH_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// known CVEs in dependencies4 high1 low

Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.12.1GHSA-345p-7cg4-v4c7

@modelcontextprotocol/sdk has cross-client data leak via shared server/transport instance reuse

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.12.1GHSA-8r9q-7v3j-jr4g

Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.12.1GHSA-w48q-cv73-mx4w

Model Context Protocol (MCP) TypeScript SDK does not enable DNS rebinding protection by default

highglob@11.0.0GHSA-5j98-mcp5-4vw2

glob CLI: Command injection via -c/--cmd executes matches with shell:true

lowexpress@4.19.2GHSA-qw6h-vgh9-j6wx

express vulnerable to XSS via response.redirect()

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// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configDB_PATH— No ./data/obsidian-mcp.db SQLite database path

🔐 secretMCP_AUTH_TOKEN— No — Bearer token for HTTP auth (required in production)

configPORT— No 3000 HTTP port (when TRANSPORT=http)

configTRANSFORMERS_CACHE— No ~/.cache/huggingface Where to cache the embedding model

configTRANSPORT— No stdio stdio or http

configVAULT_PATH— Set to your Obsidian vault directory

// full audit trail

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commit: 65b2c0941237656ea93b9d2785b25f369ea2b522

code hash: 6b7dc6d299fdc0232a0a0fc6d2100ab8d89c26e1027a41b021e719603ce6e435

verified: 7/21/2026, 8:39:26 AM

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