CVE-2026-55887
MCP Gateway: Argument injection via OCI image label YAML in Docker MCP Gateway
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.7 High
- Published
- Sep 15, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 15, 2026
- Reserved
- Jun 17, 2026
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.7 High | 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 | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
mcp-gatewaydocker |
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References
- https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-r2xf-7jw5-pjg6
- https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/pull/498
- https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/commit/306d2d94a3b526f43281313321bf784f2d46a7fe
- https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/commit/439b2200d9e26a4ff414aeb043785df45a78422b
- https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/releases/tag/v0.42.2
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