Vulnerability  ·  2026-09-21

03-lovepreetSingh MCP — unauthenticated path traversal in create_file enables arbitrary file write on the agent server (CVE-2026-94044)

VulnerabilityMedium impactGlobalCVE-2026-94044
NVD published CVE-2026-94044 on 2026-09-20 (CVSS 7.3 HIGH, CWE-22 path traversal; public exploit maturity). The repository does not version releases and the project had not responded as of publication.
MCP file-write tools are the agent's write channel to disk; an unauthenticated path-traversal here lets a remote attacker write web shells/config into the server's filesystem — an agentic file-write tool becoming an arbitrary-write RCE vector, and any prompt-injected agent could also be steered into the vulnerable call.
Unauthenticated remote manipulation of the filePath/content arguments to the create_file function of the MCP route leads to path traversal (CWE-22) and arbitrary file write on the host running the MCP server.
03-lovepreetSingh MCP (app/api/mcp/route.ts) up to commit f95d035c
No vendor reply yet — if deployed, do not expose the HTTP route unauthenticated; enforce server-side path canonicalization on any agent file-write tool. https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-94044
NVD CVE-2026-94044NVD CVE-2026-93965NVD CVE-2026-94031
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