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SCA: security update for dbt-mcp (GHSA-xpww-f6pm-cfhq)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441854

Description

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

 - dbt-mcp is a Model Context Protocol server for interacting with dbt. Prior to 1.17.1, _run_dbt_command()
 in src/dbt_mcp/dbt_cli/tools.py appended unsanitized node_selection and resource_type values to the dbt
 subprocess argument list, allowing an MCP client to inject dbt global flags such as --profiles-dir,
 --project-dir, and --target into subprocess.Popen even though shell=False prevents shell metacharacter
 injection. This issue is fixed in version 1.17.1. (CVE-2026-44968)

Solution

Update the dbt-mcp library and its related packages to version 1.17.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xpww-f6pm-cfhq

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 441854

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/14/2026

Updated: 7/22/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.66

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44968

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-44968

cwe: CWE-88