CVE-2026-44895 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-44895: GitLab MCP Server: SSE transport has no authentication and wildcard CORS, exposing all GitLab tools

Vendor Yoda-Digital
Product mcp-gitlab-server
Weakness CWE-306 · Missing auth
Published May 26, 2026
Last update May 27, 2026

CVSS base score

9.2/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

GitLab MCP Server lets an AI agent talk directly to GitLab. Prior to 0.6.0, the HTTP transport in src/transport.ts ships with no authentication layer at all and a wildcard Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * on every response. The structural defect is that the SSE server stands up a stateful, mutation-capable RPC endpoint that is backed by the operator's GITLAB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN without any inbound credential check, then advertises itself to every cross-origin browser context via the wildcard CORS header. The httpServer.listen(port) call at line 97 also passes no host argument, so the bind defaults to 0.0.0.0 and exposes the auth-less surface on every interface. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 26, 2026 CVE published
May 27, 2026 Record updated