CVE-2026-14538 PUBLISHED

BigQuery Dataset Allowlist Bypass via Metadata Dry-Run in MCP Toolbox

Assigner: Google
Reserved: 03.07.2026 Published: 31.07.2026 Updated: 31.07.2026

An improper authorization and security-boundary bypass vulnerability in the bigquery-execute-sql tool component of Google mcp-toolbox versions 0.16.1 through 1.4.0 allows an authenticated attacker to bypass allowedDatasets validation checks. The toolbox relies on the BigQuery dry-run API to enforce dataset restrictions, but due to a fail-open logic flaw, it bypasses validation when the API returns an empty array for specialized constructs. This allows the attacker to extract structural DDL schemas for explicitly excluded datasets via INFORMATION_SCHEMA, and access downstream federated row data via EXTERNAL_QUERY connections.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CVSS Score: 5.7

Product Status

Vendor Google
Product mcp-toolbox
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.16.1 to 1.4.0 (incl.)

Credits

  • HE WEI (ギカク) finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-285 (Improper Authorization) CWE
  • CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-180 Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels