CVE-2026-54446

NetLicensing MCP Server: Unauthenticated Use of Server-Side NetLicensing API Key in HTTP Mode

HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: September 17, 2026 at 05:13 PM UTC
Updated: September 30, 2026 at 05:51 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNetLicensing-MCP

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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
PoC

Description

NetLicensing MCP Server is a natural-language interface that enables agentic applications to manage the software-licensing lifecycle in Labs64 NetLicensing. Prior to 0.1.6, network-reachable HTTP transport requests to /mcp that omit x-netlicensing-api-key, Authorization: Bearer, and the apikey query parameter pass through ApiKeyMiddleware in src/netlicensing_mcp/server.py without authentication. The downstream api_key_ctx in src/netlicensing_mcp/client.py then falls back to the operator's NETLICENSING_API_KEY and authenticates upstream NetLicensing REST API calls under the operator account. An unauthenticated attacker can invoke MCP tools to enumerate products, licenses, licensees, and transactions, create or modify licensing objects, perform validations, and execute destructive delete operations. The issue affects HTTP deployments configured with a server-side key and does not require user interaction. This issue is fixed in version 0.1.6.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.1.6
Affected range stops below 0.1.6, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

8.1HIGHGitHub_M
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-306

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