MEDIUMCVSS v3.1 5.9Vulnerability

CVE-2026-116685

### Summary In affected versions, the SDK's Streamable HTTP and SSE client transports followed HTTP redirects to any host. If the configured MCP endpoint answered with a redirect to a different origin: - custom headers set on the client (for example an `X-API-Key` credential) were sent to that origin, and - on a `307` or `308` redirect the request body was re-sent there too. The SDK's OAuth client providers followed redirects on their own discovery, registration and token requests in the same way. A lone `Authorization` bearer header was not exposed; the HTTP library already drops it on cross-origin redirects. Anyone able to make an endpoint you trust redirect elsewhere (a stale redirect to a lapsed domain, a misrouted proxy rule, redirect logic an attacker can influence) could capture that material. A server that is itself malicious gains nothing this way; it already receives your requests directly. ### Am I affected? Yes, if your code uses the SDK as an MCP client over HTTP through any of: - `streamable_http_client` (on 2.x also `Client` given an `http://` or `https://` URL) - `streamablehttp_client` or `sse_client` - `ClientSessionGroup` with HTTP server parameters - the internal `create_mcp_http_client` helper This includes an HTTP client you passed in yourself with `follow_redirects=True`. Affected versions: 1.8.0 through 1.29.1, and 2.0.0 through 2.1.1. Not affected: - MCP servers - stdio clients - a client you supplied with `follow_redirects` left at its default of `False` ### Fix Upgrade to `mcp` 1.30.0 (1.x) or 2.2.0 (2.x) or later; no code changes are needed. The transports, and the OAuth providers' own requests, now follow a redirect only when it stays on the endpoint's origin (same scheme, host and port, or an `http` to `https` upgrade on the same host) and keeps the request method. Any other redirect is not followed and the request fails with an error naming the target (`MCPError` on 2.x, `httpx.HTTPStatusError` on 1.x), whichever HTTP clien

Properties

Summary
Model Context Protocol Python SDK: HTTP client transports followed cross-origin redirects carrying custom headers and bodies
Severity
medium
Nvd fetched at
2026-10-27T23:33:07.137019+00:00
Cvss score
5.9
Cvss severity
MEDIUM
Retrieved at
2026-10-27T23:34:58+00:00
Ghsa published
2026-10-27T21:05:34Z
Source url
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5h93-6whr-6q8j
Ghsa updated
2026-10-27T21:05:36Z
Ghsa id
GHSA-5h93-6whr-6q8j
Last source
GitHub Advisory Database
Score
5.9
Cvss version
3.1
Cve id
CVE-2026-116685
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
First seen by Signal
2026-10-27T23:33:57+00:00
Is ghsa only
false
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Published at
2026-10-27T20:17:13.493
Last modified
2026-10-27T20:17:13.493

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