Security Advisory

CVE-2026-55580

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-25 15:42:36

Last updated 2026-08-25 16:08:10

Assigner GitHub_M

CVSS score 8.6

State PUBLISHED

Description

mcp-shell is an MCP server for running shell commands securely, auditably, and on demand. Prior to 0.6.0, config.go initializes Security.Enabled to false, and when MCP_SHELL_SEC_CONFIG_FILE is unset, main.go starts the documented bare-binary deployment without a security policy. SecurityValidator.validateCommand in security.go then short-circuits and allows every command supplied to the shell_exec MCP tool, so an LLM connected over stdio can execute unrestricted OS commands as the mcp-shell process user. The README from-source installation and MCP client configuration omit MCP_SHELL_SEC_CONFIG_FILE, making the insecure state the documented default. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.0.

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