Security Onion MCP (Community Edition)

Item: Security Onion MCP (Community Edition)
Rating: 69
Author: M8ven

An MCP server for Security Onion Community Edition that provides 21 read and write tools for SOC operations, including event querying, alert management, detection tuning, PCAP retrieval, and agent enrollment, without requiring a Pro license.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: SO_OS_PASSWORD, SO_SSH_PASSWORD

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

// required environment variables

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

configSO_API_ENDPOINT

configSO_OS_USER— / SO_OS_PASSWORD so_elastic + its password (sudo cat /opt/so/conf/elasticsearch/curl.config on the manager)

🔐 secretSO_OS_PASSWORD— SO_OS_USER / so_elastic + its password (sudo cat /opt/so/conf/elasticsearch/curl.config on the manager)

configSO_CA_CERT— SO_API_VERIFY_SSL false for a lab self-signed cert, or set and true

configSO_API_VERIFY_SSL— false for a lab self-signed cert, or set SO_CA_CERT and true

configSO_SSH_HOST— / SO_SSH_USER / SO_SSH_PASSWORD manager IP + a sudo-capable account

configSO_SSH_PORT

configSO_SSH_USER— SO_SSH_HOST / / SO_SSH_PASSWORD manager IP + a sudo-capable account

🔐 secretSO_SSH_PASSWORD— SO_SSH_HOST / SO_SSH_USER / manager IP + a sudo-capable account

configSO_SSH_HOSTKEY— the manager's ed25519 fingerprint — pin it (see .env.example for the one-liner)

configSO_ENABLE_FILE_LOGGING

configSO_DEFAULT_TIME_RANGE

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commit: 44ae22a8030603017eb4251d15048f19cbbcb3bd

code hash: 4f85740be47ec4831590989ed3cc694006f5cf56f11e59d55601931c3b9173e2

verified: 7/15/2026, 8:47:42 AM

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