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Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-55581

CVE-2026-55581

High
Open
TLP:CLEAR

mcp-shell: Secure Mode Allowlist Bypass via Default `/bin/bash` Executable

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Description

mcp-shell is an MCP server for running shell commands securely, auditably, and on demand. Prior to 0.6.0, the default Docker security.yaml includes /bin/bash in allowed_executables, while security.go validates only the first token and checkBlockedPatternsAndCommands does not reject the shell command-mode flag -c. A caller of the shell_exec MCP tool can provide the command argument `/bin/bash -c <arbitrary-command>`, which passes validation and reaches executor.go, where parseCommand and exec.CommandContext execute the arbitrary command as mcpuser outside the intended allowlist. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.0.

Details

CVSS Score
8.4
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Confidence
90%
Published
Aug 25, 2026
Last Modified
Aug 25, 2026
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