PT-2026-45070

Published

2026-05-19

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Updated

2026-05-19

Description by

CVSS 4.0
9.3
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

The MCP router (ext proc) exposes an initialize-method code path that, when a request carries an mcp-init-host header, bypasses the gateway JWT session validator and rewrites the upstream :authority header to whatever the caller chooses, gated only by a single shared header value (router-key). The shared value is
  • a literal string (secret-api-key) baked into cmd/mcp-broker-router/main.go as a fall-back default, and
  • in controller-managed deployments, a SHA-256 truncation of the MCPGatewayExtension UID — a non-secret value visible to anyone with get permission on the resource, and additionally exposed in argv because it is passed to the broker-router container via --mcp-router-key=....
A request that satisfies the trivial header check is forwarded to any backend listener registered with the gateway (including external services such as api.githubcopilot.com when configured), bypassing both the broker (where the signed x-mcp-authorized capability filter is enforced) and the gateway's JWT-based session model.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CWE-287: Improper Authentication
CWE-346: Origin Validation Error
Related identifiers
GHSA-G53W-W6MJ-HRPP
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