CVE-2026-55887 PUBLISHED

MCP Gateway: Argument injection via OCI image label YAML in Docker MCP Gateway

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 17.06.2026 Published: 15.09.2026 Updated: 15.09.2026

MCP Gateway allows easy and secure running and deployment of MCP servers. From 0.21.0 until 0.42.2, Docker MCP Gateway YAML-unmarshalled the attacker-controlled io.docker.server.metadata OCI image label into the broad catalog.Server structure for direct docker:// references and catalog snapshot imports in pkg/oci/self_contained.go and pkg/workingset/workingset.go. Runtime-shaping fields including Volumes, User, and ExtraHosts were then appended to the docker run argument vector without an origin allowlist, allowing a malicious image author to request host filesystem or Docker socket mounts and UID 0 execution when a victim selected or pulled the image. This container-creation-time boundary bypass can execute arbitrary code on the host and is not prevented by no-new-privileges because no in-container privilege escalation is required. This issue is fixed in version 0.42.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor docker
Product mcp-gateway
Versions
  • Version >= 0.21.0, < 0.42.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-88: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection') CWE