CVE-2026-55887

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/commit/306d2d94a3b526f43281313321bf784f2d46a7fe
https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/commit/439b2200d9e26a4ff414aeb043785df45a78422b
https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/pull/498
https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/releases/tag/v0.42.2
https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-r2xf-7jw5-pjg6

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-09-15 16:17

Updated : 2026-09-15 19:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-55887

Mitre link : CVE-2026-55887

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-55887

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-88

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

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