CVE-2026-55887

MCP Gateway: Argument injection via OCI image label YAML in Docker MCP Gateway

HIGH
8.7
CVSS Score
Published: September 15, 2026 at 03:45 PM UTC
Updated: September 30, 2026 at 05:51 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMCP Gateway

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Severity
HIGH8.7
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

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

v < 0.42.2
Affected range stops below 0.42.2, 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

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

8.7HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-88

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