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mcp-use Inspector Proxy Server-Side Request Forgery via Caller-Supplied Target URL

Published Aug 27, 2026

Description

The proxy middleware in mcp-use's inspector forwards requests to a destination the caller names. mountMcpProxy in libraries/typescript/packages/inspector/src/server/proxy/mcp-proxy.ts read the target from the X-Target-URL header or the __mcp_target parameter and proxied to it without inspecting the host, so loopback, link-local and private addresses were all accepted, as were names that resolve to them, and the validation was not reapplied to a redirect the destination returned. A caller could therefore make the server issue requests to addresses reachable only from the host it runs on and read the responses. The current code calls isSafeProxyTarget, which checks the resolved address against private, loopback and link-local ranges before proxying and bounds the number of redirects followed.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner VulnCheck
Published Aug 27, 2026
Updated Aug 29, 2026
Reserved Aug 26, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Aug 27, 2026
NVD
Status Received
Modified Aug 27, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a