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CVE-2025-66454: Arcade MCP Default Hardcoded Worker Secret Allows Full Unauthorized Access to All HTTP MCP Worker Endpoints

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-12-02 · updated 2026-10-18
• Weakness: CWE-321

Description

Arcade MCP allows you to to create, deploy, and share MCP Servers. Prior to 1.5.4, the arcade-mcp HTTP server uses a hardcoded default worker secret ("dev") that is never validated or overridden during normal server startup. As a result, any unauthenticated attacker who knows this default key can forge valid JWTs and fully bypass the FastAPI authentication layer. This grants remote access to all worker endpoints—including tool enumeration and tool invocation—without credentials. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.5.4.

Affected products

• ArcadeAI arcade-mcp: before 1.5.4

References

• https://github.com/ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp/commit/44660d18ceb220600401303df860a31ca766c817
• https://github.com/ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp/pull/691
• https://github.com/ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp/security/advisories/GHSA-g2jx-37x6-6438

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