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GHSA-5gf6-gc35-xjpc

MCP Toolbox for Databases: authenticated authorization bypass

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-11719

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Go github.com/googleapis/mcp-toolbox < 1.4.0 1.4.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

An authenticated authorization bypass vulnerability exists in MCP Toolbox for Databases due to missing scope enforcement across older protocol handlers. While the 2025-11-25 protocol version handler correctly enforces per-tool restrictions defined by scopesRequired, older supported protocol versions (2025-06-18, 2025-03-26, and 2024-11-05) omit this check. An authenticated client with low-privilege tokens (e.g., read) can bypass the intended per-tool scope restrictions and execute high-privilege tools (e.g., admin) simply by specifying an older protocol version in the MCP-Protocol-Version header, or by omitting the header entirely (which causes the server to default to the vulnerable 2024-11-05 handler).

References

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