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.
What this means for your business
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- CVSS v4
- 8.7
- Weakness
- CWE-88
- Assigned by
- security-advisories@github.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-15
- Last modified
- 2026-09-15
- Sources
- NVD
References
- 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