{"id":"CVE-2026-79748","aliases":["EUVD-2026-68686","GHSA-mx89-jjx9-gjr8"],"status":"published","title":"MCPHub: Authenticated non-admin user achieves RCE via POST /api/servers (missing authorization on stdio command/args)","description":"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":{"version":"3.1","score":9.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-09","score":0.00635,"percentile":0.50746,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-862"],"published":"2026-08-31T17:55:08Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:47Z","products":[{"vendor":"mcphub","product":"mcphub"},{"vendor":"samanhappy","product":"mcphub"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/samanhappy/mcphub/security/advisories/GHSA-mx89-jjx9-gjr8","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM","exploit","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/samanhappy/mcphub/pull/770","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/samanhappy/mcphub/releases/tag/v0.12.15","tags":["x_refsource_MISC","web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/79xxx/CVE-2026-79748.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-79748","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-79748","title":"MCPHub: Authenticated non-admin user achieves RCE via POST /api/servers (missing authorization on stdio command/args)","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-31T17:55:08.74Z","modified":"2026-08-31T18:40:47.698Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"cna"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T13:50:27.582139Z"}],"euvd":[{"id":"EUVD-2026-68686","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-31T17:55:08Z","modified":"2026-08-31T18:40:47Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T18:01:20.215322Z"}],"nvd":[{"id":"CVE-2026-79748","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-31T18:17:20.34Z","modified":"2026-09-08T21:08:37.32Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical","assessor":"secondary"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:12:42.691315Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"CVE-2026-79748","title":"MCPHub: Authenticated non-admin user achieves RCE via POST /api/servers (missing authorization on stdio command/args)","description":"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.","status":"published","published":"2026-08-31T17:55:08.74Z","modified":"2026-10-28T02:30:47.774575989Z","cvss":[{"version":"3.1","score":9.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","level":"critical"}],"cwes":["CWE-862"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:45:17.44708Z"}]}}