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CVE-2026-55887: MCP Gateway: Argument injection via OCI image label YAML in Docker MCP Gateway

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.7 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-15 · updated 2026-09-30
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

MCP Gateway allows easy and secure running and deployment of MCP servers. From 0.21.0 until 0.42.2, Docker MCP Gateway YAML-unmarshalled the attacker-controlled io.docker.server.metadata OCI image label into the broad catalog.Server structure for direct docker:// references and catalog snapshot imports in pkg/oci/self_contained.go and pkg/workingset/workingset.go. Runtime-shaping fields including Volumes, User, and ExtraHosts were then appended to the docker run argument vector without an origin allowlist, allowing a malicious image author to request host filesystem or Docker socket mounts and UID 0 execution when a victim selected or pulled the image. This container-creation-time boundary bypass can execute arbitrary code on the host and is not prevented by no-new-privileges because no in-container privilege escalation is required. This issue is fixed in version 0.42.2.

Affected products

• docker mcp-gateway: from 0.21.0, < 0.42.2

References

• https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/commit/306d2d94a3b526f43281313321bf784f2d46a7fe
• https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/commit/439b2200d9e26a4ff414aeb043785df45a78422b
• https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/pull/498
• https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/releases/tag/v0.42.2
• https://github.com/docker/mcp-gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-r2xf-7jw5-pjg6

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