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The access control was effectively cosmetic.\n\nFixed in v3.6.0.\n\n## Impact\n\nAn attacker or misconfigured AI agent with network access to the MCP server's HTTP endpoint could invoke any Kubernetes tool regardless of the restriction mode configured by the operator -- including `kubectl_delete`, `exec_in_pod`, `kubectl_generic`, and `node_management`.\n\nThe project explicitly supports and documents multi-client HTTP deployment scenarios (Streamable HTTP and SSE transports, in-cluster deployments, Codex CLI and Gemini CLI integrations). In these deployments, operators relied on the tool restriction env vars to enforce least-privilege access across users or roles. The bypass invalidated that model entirely.\n\nSeverity scales with the Kubernetes service account's permissions. In environments where the MCP server runs with `cluster-admin` (common in dev/staging), this is equivalent to full cluster compromise for any client that can reach the endpoint.\n\nThe `MCP_AUTH_TOKEN` / `X-MCP-AUTH` mechanism controls who can reach the endpoint but provides no per-tool authorization. An authenticated client restricted to `ALLOWED_TOOLS=kubectl_get` could still invoke `kubectl_delete` after authentication.\n\n## Root Cause\n\nIn `src/index.ts`, the `ListToolsRequestSchema` handler applied the configured filtering logic before returning available tools. The `CallToolRequestSchema` handler dispatched directly by tool name with no equivalent check -- every tool was reachable unconditionally.\n\n## Proof of Concept\n\nTested across all three restriction modes against a live kind cluster. In each case, `kubectl_delete` was absent from `tools/list` but executed successfully via a direct `tools/call` request:\n\n```shell\ncurl -s http://<HOST>:3003/mcp \\\n  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \\\n  -d '{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":2,\"method\":\"tools/call\",\"params\":{\"name\":\"kubectl_delete\",\"arguments\":{\"resourceType\":\"pod\",\"name\":\"test-pod\",\"namespace\":\"default\"}}}'\n```\n\nResult: `{\"result\":{\"content\":[{\"type\":\"text\",\"text\":\"pod \\\"test-pod\\\" deleted\\n\"}]}}`\n\nConfirmed across `ALLOW_ONLY_READONLY_TOOLS=true`, `ALLOW_ONLY_NON_DESTRUCTIVE_TOOLS=true`, and `ALLOWED_TOOLS=kubectl_get`.\n\n## Remediation\n\nThe fix applies the same filtering logic from `ListToolsRequestSchema` at the start of the `CallToolRequestSchema` handler, returning an error for any tool call outside the active allowed set. Fixed in v3.6.0.\n\n## Credit\n\nDiscovered by [Francisco Rosales](https://www.linkedin.com/in/francisco-rosales-celis/) of [Manifold Security](https://manifold.security), coordinated by [Ax Sharma](https://www.linkedin.com/in/axsharma/), Head of Research at Manifold Security.","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-05-21T20:33:46+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-06-12T19:30:11.4977461+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"npm","name":"mcp-server-kubernetes","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"kind":"introduced","version":"0"},{"kind":"fixed","version":"3.6.0"}]}],"versions":[],"rawVersionEvidence":null}],"metrics":[{"system":"CVSS_V3","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":null,"severity":null},{"system":"Publisher rating","vector":null,"score":null,"severity":"HIGH"}],"references":["https://github.com/Flux159/mcp-server-kubernetes/security/advisories/GHSA-cr22-wjx7-2w6m","https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46519","https://github.com/Flux159/mcp-server-kubernetes","https://github.com/Flux159/mcp-server-kubernetes/releases/tag/v3.6.0"],"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cr22-wjx7-2w6m","license":"GitHub Advisory Database · CC-BY-4.0","key":"osv:GHSA-cr22-wjx7-2w6m","identifiers":["GHSA-cr22-wjx7-2w6m","CVE-2026-46519"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[{"source":"cisa-kev:global","scope":"Complete CISA KEV catalog; all vendors. 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