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CVE-2025-66401

MCP Watch has a Critical Command Injection in cloneRepo allows Remote Code Execution (RCE) via malicious URL PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

MCP Watch is a comprehensive security scanner for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. In 0.1.2 and earlier, the MCPScanner class contains a critical Command Injection vulnerability in the cloneRepo method. The application passes the user-supplied githubUrl argument directly to a system shell via execSync without sanitization. This allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the host machine by appending shell metacharacters to the URL.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
kapilduraphe / mcp-watchaffected <= 0.1.2

CWE

CWE-78

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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