CVE-2026-44428 PUBLISHED

MCP Registry: GitHub OIDC tokens replayable across registry deployments due to shared audience

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 06.05.2026 Published: 14.05.2026 Updated: 14.05.2026

The MCP Registry provides MCP clients with a list of MCP servers, like an app store for MCP servers. Prior to 1.7.6, the client-side and server-side GitHub OIDC flow is bound only to a global audience string, not to the specific registry instance being targeted. On the client side, the publisher always appends audience=mcp-registry when requesting the GitHub Actions ID token, regardless of the selected --registry URL. On the server side, the exchange endpoint validates only that same fixed audience and then derives publish permissions directly from repository_owner. As a result, a token legitimately obtained while interacting with one registry deployment remains acceptable to any other deployment that shares the same code and audience string. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.7.6.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
CVSS Score: 2.1

Product Status

Vendor modelcontextprotocol
Product registry
Versions
  • Version < 1.7.6 is affected

References

Problem Types

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