CVE-2025-53818 HIGH

CVE-2025-53818: github-kanban-mcp-server Command Injection vulnerability

Vendor Sunwood-Ai-Labs
Product github-kanban-mcp-server
Weakness CWE-78
Published July 14, 2025
Last update July 15, 2025
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CVSS base score

8.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

What the vulnerability does

01Description

GitHub Kanban MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for managing GitHub issues in Kanban board format and streamlining LLM task management. Version 0.3.0 of the MCP Server is written in a way that is vulnerable to command injection vulnerability attacks as part of some of its MCP Server tool definition and implementation. The MCP Server exposes the tool `add_comment` which relies on Node.js child process API `exec` to execute the GitHub (`gh`) command, is an unsafe and vulnerable API if concatenated with untrusted user input. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 14, 2025 CVE published
July 15, 2025 Record updated