CVE-2026-81315

MCP DNS-rebinding origin check in AshAi is bypassed by a spoofed X-Forwarded-Proto header

HIGH
7.4
CVSS Score
Published: August 31, 2026 at 12:57 AM UTC
Updated: September 1, 2026 at 09:31 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAshAi

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Severity
HIGH7.4
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Origin Validation Error vulnerability in ash-project ash_ai allows a malicious web page to bypass the MCP server's DNS-rebinding protection and issue cross-site requests to a user's local MCP server with that user's actor. In AshAi.Mcp.Server, with the default allowed_origins: nil, origin_allowed?/3 accepts an origin when uri.host == conn.host and the forwarded scheme is https. Both values are attacker-controlled: conn.host comes from the Host header and the scheme is read from the raw x-forwarded-proto header with no trusted-proxy check. Under DNS rebinding the browser sends the attacker's origin and a matching host, and page JavaScript may set X-Forwarded-Proto: https, so the check passes with no TLS or proxy involved. The fix trusts only localhost origins by default; other origins require an explicit allowed_origins allowlist. This issue affects ash_ai: from 0.8.0 before 1.0.0.

Affected

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

0.8.0 ≤ v < 1.0.00.8.0c94f0b17fbe252f68755ba512678586164ba6139
Vendor states this is fixed in 28af68d73134df0b8fb3aa6ab03e8fd795b07c21 (fixed)
Affected range stops below 1.0.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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CVSS

7.4HIGHEEF
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-346

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