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SCA: security update for @modelcontextprotocol/inspector (GHSA-g9hg-qhmf-q45m)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 435223

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The MCP inspector is a developer tool for testing and debugging MCP servers. A cross-site scripting issue
 was reported in versions of the MCP Inspector local development tool prior to 0.16.6 when connecting to
 untrusted remote MCP servers with a malicious redirect URI. This could be leveraged to interact directly
 with the inspector proxy to trigger arbitrary command execution. Users are advised to update to 0.16.6 to
 resolve this issue. (CVE-2025-58444)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g9hg-qhmf-q45m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 435223

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 9/9/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Percentile: 57.02

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-58444

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 6.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-58444