CVE-2026-90898

critical

Description

Bifrost registers MCP clients through its management API. A stdio client is a command plus args. Bifrost starts that program in the gateway the moment the client is added. No MCP handshake required. The default is governance.auth_config.is_enabled=false. Auth off means every caller is a local admin. One unauthenticated POST /api/mcp/client is enough to run a program as the Bifrost process user (appuser on the official image). transports/v2.1.0 refuses an unauthenticated stdio registration with 403. transports/v2.0.0 still allows it.

References

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/releases/tag/transports/v2.1.0

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/pull/6757

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost/commit/12e170352bd25eab1ae9ba16611f1797d1fd8fdc

https://github.com/maximhq/bifrost

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-18

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

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

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00343