CVE-2026-79748 (GCVE-0-2026-79748)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-31 17:55 – Updated: 2026-08-31 18:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
MCPHub: Authenticated non-admin user achieves RCE via POST /api/servers (missing authorization on stdio command/args)
Summary
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.
Severity
9.9 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-31 18:39 UTC
CWE
- CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/samanhappy/mcphub/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/samanhappy/mcphub/pull/770 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/samanhappy/mcphub/releases/tag… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| samanhappy | mcphub |
Affected:
< 0.12.15
|
guessed |
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