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CVE-2026-55582

mcp-shell: Secure Mode Allowlist Bypass via Git Shell Alias PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

mcp-shell is an MCP server for running shell commands securely, auditably, and on demand. Prior to 0.6.0, the default security.yaml allows /usr/bin/git, while security.go omits ! from containsShellMetacharacters and containsDangerousShellConstructs and applies no per-executable argument policy. A caller of the shell_exec MCP tool can provide the command argument /usr/bin/git -c alias.pwn=!<arbitrary-command>, causing Git to create a shell alias and execute arbitrary OS commands as the mcp-shell process user. The default Docker image runs as mcpuser with Git installed and secure mode enabled, so the bypass is exploitable in the default deployment without additional authentication beyond MCP connectivity. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
sonirico / mcp-shellaffected < 0.6.0

CWE

CWE-78

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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