CVE-2026-55887

high

Description

MCP Gateway allows easy and secure running and deployment of MCP servers. From 0.21.0 until 0.42.2, Docker MCP Gateway YAML-unmarshalled the attacker-controlled io.docker.server.metadata OCI image label into the broad catalog.Server structure for direct docker:// references and catalog snapshot imports in pkg/oci/self_contained.go and pkg/workingset/workingset.go. Runtime-shaping fields including Volumes, User, and ExtraHosts were then appended to the docker run argument vector without an origin allowlist, allowing a malicious image author to request host filesystem or Docker socket mounts and UID 0 execution when a victim selected or pulled the image. This container-creation-time boundary bypass can execute arbitrary code on the host and is not prevented by no-new-privileges because no in-container privilege escalation is required. This issue is fixed in version 0.42.2.

References

https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-r2xf-7jw5-pjg6

https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/releases/tag/v0.42.2

https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/pull/498

https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/commit/439b2200d9e26a4ff414aeb043785df45a78422b

https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/commit/306d2d94a3b526f43281313321bf784f2d46a7fe

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-78684

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-15

Updated: 2026-09-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00199