MCP Registry has open redirect via protocol-relative path in trailing-slash middleware
Exact source revision recorded 24 Oct 2026 13:19:41 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.
osv · GHSA-v8vw-gw5j-w7m6
Published### Summary The TrailingSlashMiddleware in internal/api/server.go is vulnerable to an open redirect attack. An attacker can craft a URL with a protocol-relative path (e.g., //evil.com/) that, after trailing slash removal, results in a Location header of //evil.com — which browsers interpret as an absolute URL to an external domain. ### Details The TrailingSlashMiddleware strips trailing slashes from request paths and issues a 308 Permanent Redirect to the cleaned path. However, it does not validate or sanitize the resulting path before using it as the redirect target. When a request is made with a path like //evil.com/, the middleware processes it as follows: ### PoC 1. Start the registry server locally or identify a deployed instance 2. Send a request with a double-slash path followed by an external domain: `curl -v https://<registry-host>//evil.com/` <img width="3066" height="969" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a5305f00-29bf-4708-952a-478d608f2074" /> 3. Observe the 308 Permanent Redirect response with Location: //evil.com: 4. When accessed in a browser, the user is redirected to https://evil.com ### Impact **Phishing**: Attackers can abuse the trusted registry domain to redirect users to credential-harvesting pages **Malware distribution**: Redirect users to sites serving malicious downloads **Trust abuse:** Links originating from the official MCP Registry domain carry implicit trust
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- 8 May 2026 17:02:12 UTC
- Source modified
- 10 Sep 2026 03:50:47 UTC
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- 24 Oct 2026 13:19:41 UTC
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