CVE-2026-81092 HIGH

CVE-2026-81092: mcp-go before 0.56.0 Missing Host Header Validation Enables DNS Rebinding

Vendor Mark3Labs
Product mcp-go
Weakness CWE-346 · Origin validation
Published August 27, 2026
Last update August 29, 2026

CVSS base score

7.6/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

mcp-go accepted requests on its HTTP transports without checking the Host header. StreamableHTTPServer.ServeHTTP in server/streamable_http.go and SSEServer.ServeHTTP in server/sse.go served any request arriving over a loopback connection regardless of the host it named, and the SSE transport's cross-origin default allowed any origin. A page in a browser could therefore point a name it controlled at the loopback address and reach a server listening there, invoking tools and reading resources that the server exposed on the assumption that only local software could connect. No release before 0.56.0 validated the header on either transport; 0.56.0 adds server/http_localhost.go, which rejects a loopback-bound request carrying a host that is not a loopback name, and wires it into both transports.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 27, 2026 CVE published
August 29, 2026 Record updated