CVE-2026-52869 PUBLISHED

MCP Python SDK: HTTP transports serve session requests without verifying the authenticated principal

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 08.06.2026 Published: 15.07.2026 Updated: 16.07.2026

The MCP Python SDK, called mcp on PyPI, is a Python implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Prior to 1.27.2, the SSE and stateful Streamable HTTP transports mcp.server.sse.SseServerTransport and mcp.server.streamable_http_manager.StreamableHTTPSessionManager route requests to existing sessions using only the session_id query parameter or Mcp-Session-Id header without verifying the authenticated principal that created the session, allowing a different bearer-token-authenticated client with a known session ID to inject JSON-RPC messages into that session. This issue is fixed in version 1.27.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS Score: 7.1

Product Status

Vendor modelcontextprotocol
Product python-sdk
Versions
  • Version < 1.27.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key CWE