ToolHive: SSRF in remote MCP server authentication discovery (host-side, bypasses container isolation)

Summary

CVECVE-2026-58196
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerGitHub_M
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-15 16:17:16 UTC
Updated2026-09-15 18:17:25 UTC
DescriptionToolHive is a utility designed to simplify the deployment and management of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Prior to 0.31.0, remote.Handler.Authenticate in pkg/auth/remote/handler.go invokes discovery.DetectAuthenticationFromServer in pkg/auth/discovery/discovery.go, whose host-side HTTP clients trust remote-server-controlled authentication discovery destinations, follow redirects without host or scheme restrictions, and do not consistently block private addresses. A malicious or compromised remote MCP server can place a resource_metadata URL in WWW-Authenticate for ParseWWWAuthenticate to extract, after which FetchResourceMetadata, OIDC issuer discovery, and well-known discovery can issue GET requests to link-local, RFC1918, or other internal services outside the server's container. The user connects to a server that the user intends to use, but the server controls the internal destination; this path does not depend on the separate NAT64 guard omission because the affected clients did not invoke IsPrivateIP, and it differs from the DCR resolver path that already refused redirects. The demonstrated primitive reaches internal-only HTTP services and reachability or error oracles, and can retrieve AWS metadata credentials where IMDSv1 accepts an unauthenticated GET, while IMDSv2 and GCP metadata prerequisites are not satisfied by the demonstrated request. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.31.0.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 4.7 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-918 | CWE-918 CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)


VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary4.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
3.1CNADECLARED4.7MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Stacklok Toolhive affected < 0.31.0 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/stacklok/toolhive/releases/tag/v0.31.0 [email protected] github.com
github.com/stacklok/toolhive/security/advisories/GHSA-pr64-jmmf-jp54 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 github.com
github.com/stacklok/toolhive/commit/4ea6afb9048ddec1d56875fa9e0da36d65c1... [email protected] github.com
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