Medium severity · published Sep 15, 2026
CVE-2026-58196
ToolHive: SSRF in remote MCP server authentication discovery (host-side, bypasses container isolation)
4.7
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ToolHive is a utility designed to simplify the deployment and management of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. Prior to 0.31.0, remote.Handler.Authenticate in pkg/auth/remote/handler.go invokes discovery.DetectAuthenticationFromServer in pkg/auth/discovery/discovery.go, whose host-side HTTP clients trust remote-server-controlled authentication discovery destinations, follow redirects without host or scheme restrictions, and do not consistently block private addresses. A malicious or compromised remote MCP server can place a resource_metadata URL in WWW-Authenticate for ParseWWWAuthenticate to extract, after which FetchResourceMetadata, OIDC issuer discovery, and well-known discovery can issue GET requests to link-local, RFC1918, or other internal services outside the server's container. The user connects to a server that the user intends to use, but the server controls the internal destination; this path does not depend on the separate NAT64 guard omission because the affected clients did not invoke IsPrivateIP, and it differs from the DCR resolver path that already refused redirects. The demonstrated primitive reaches internal-only HTTP services and reachability or error oracles, and can retrieve AWS metadata credentials where IMDSv1 accepts an unauthenticated GET, while IMDSv2 and GCP metadata prerequisites are not satisfied by the demonstrated request. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.31.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
TO
toolhive · stacklok
< 0.31.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-58196
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-58196
github.com
https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive/commit/4ea6afb9048ddec1d56875fa9e0da36d65c15966
github.com
https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive/releases/tag/v0.31.0
github.com
https://github.com/stacklok/toolhive/security/advisories/GHSA-pr64-jmmf-jp54
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