CVE-2026-79748 PUBLISHED

MCPHub: Authenticated non-admin user achieves RCE via POST /api/servers (missing authorization on stdio command/args)

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 25.08.2026 Published: 31.08.2026 Updated: 31.08.2026

MCPHub is a unified hub for centrally managing and dynamically orchestrating multiple MCP servers/APIs into separate endpoints with flexible routing strategies. Prior to version 0.12.15, the POST /api/servers and PUT /api/servers/:name endpoints in MCPHub create/update MCP server configurations and then immediately spawn the configured stdio process via child_process.spawn. Authentication is required, but there is no authorization check restricting these endpoints to admins, and there is no allowlist/sanitization on the command and args fields. As a result, any authenticated non-admin user can submit a server configuration with command:"/bin/sh" (or any other binary) and arbitrary args, causing MCPHub to execute the attacker-controlled process as the MCPHub server's OS user (commonly root in the published Docker image and in npx/systemd deployments). This issue has been patched in version 0.12.15.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.9

Product Status

Vendor samanhappy
Product mcphub
Versions
  • Version < 0.12.15 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization CWE