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High nvd · CVE-2026-55581

CVE-2026-55581: mcp-shell is an MCP server for running shell commands securely, auditably, and on demand. Prior to 0.6.0, the default Do

Published Aug 25, 2026 CVSS 8.4

mcp-shell is an MCP server for running shell commands securely, auditably, and on demand. Prior to 0.6.0, the default Docker security.yaml includes /bin/bash in allowed_executables, while security.go validates only the first token and checkBlockedPatternsAndCommands does not reject the shell command-mode flag -c. A caller of the shell_exec MCP tool can provide the command argument /bin/bash -c , which passes validation and reaches executor.go, where parseCommand and exec.CommandContext execute the arbitrary command as mcpuser outside the intended allowlist. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.0.

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