CVE-2026-32871 PUBLISHED

FastMCP OpenAPI Provider has an SSRF & Path Traversal Vulnerability

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.03.2026 Published: 02.04.2026 Updated: 02.04.2026

FastMCP is a Pythonic way to build MCP servers and clients. Prior to version 3.2.0, the OpenAPIProvider in FastMCP exposes internal APIs to MCP clients by parsing OpenAPI specifications. The RequestDirector class is responsible for constructing HTTP requests to the backend service. A vulnerability exists in the _build_url() method. When an OpenAPI operation defines path parameters (e.g., /api/v1/users/{user_id}), the system directly substitutes parameter values into the URL template string without URL-encoding. Subsequently, urllib.parse.urljoin() resolves the final URL. Since urljoin() interprets ../ sequences as directory traversal, an attacker controlling a path parameter can perform path traversal attacks to escape the intended API prefix and access arbitrary backend endpoints. This results in authenticated SSRF, as requests are sent with the authorization headers configured in the MCP provider. This issue has been patched in version 3.2.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 10

Product Status

Vendor PrefectHQ
Product fastmcp
Versions
  • Version < 3.2.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CWE