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CVE-2026-42559 — RMCP: DNS rebinding vulnerability in rmcp Streamable HTTP server transport

Affected: modelcontextprotocol rust-sdk

RMCP is an official Rust SDK for the Model Context Protocol. Prior to version 1.4.0, the rmcp crate's Streamable HTTP server transport (crates/rmcp/src/transport/streamable_http_server/) did not validate the incoming Host header. This allowed a malicious public website, via a DNS rebinding attack, to send authenticated requests to an MCP server running on the victim's loopback or private-network interface. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.

GHSA-89vp-x53w-74fx — rmcp Streamable HTTP server transport has a DNS rebinding vulnerability

Affected: crates.io: rmcp

## Summary

Prior to version 1.4.0, the `rmcp` crate's Streamable HTTP server transport (`crates/rmcp/src/transport/streamable_http_server/`) did not validate the incoming `Host` header. This allowed a malicious public website, via a DNS rebinding attack, to send authenticated requests to an MCP server running on the victim's loopback or private-network interface — violating the MCP specification's [transport security guidance](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/transports#security-warning).

## Impact

An attacker who convinces a victim to visit a malicious page can:

- Enumerate and invoke any tool exposed by a locally-running rmcp-based MCP server. - Read resources, prompts, and any state accessible via the MCP session. - Trigger side effects (file writes, shell execution, API calls, etc.) limited only by what tools the victim's server exposes.

Because MCP servers frequently run with the user's privileges and expose developer tooling (filesystems, shells, browser control, language servers, etc.), the practical impact can extend to arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine.

## Affected Versions

`rmcp < 1.4.0` — all prior releases of the Streamable HTTP server transport. Non-HTTP transports (stdio, child-process) are not affected.

## Patched Versions

`rmcp >= 1.4.0` (current: 1.5.1).

## Patch

Fixed in [PR #764](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/rust-sdk/pull/764) (commit `8e22aa2`), released as v1.4.0 on 2026-04-09:

- `Stream…

RUSTSEC-2026-0189 — DNS rebinding vulnerability in rmcp Streamable HTTP server transport

Affected: crates.io: rmcp

Prior to version 1.4.0, the `rmcp` crate's Streamable HTTP server transport did not validate the incoming `Host` header.

This allowed a malicious public website, via a DNS rebinding attack, to send requests to an MCP server running on the victim's loopback or private-network interface.

An attacker who convinced a victim to visit a malicious page could enumerate and invoke tools exposed by a locally running rmcp-based MCP server, read resources and prompts, and trigger side effects limited by the tools exposed by that server.

Non-HTTP transports such as stdio and child-process transports are not affected.

## Patches

The issue was fixed in `rmcp` 1.4.0 by adding default loopback-only host allowlist validation for the Streamable HTTP server transport. Incoming HTTP requests now validate the `Host` header and return HTTP 403 when the host is not allowed.

Users should upgrade to `rmcp >= 1.4.0`.

## Workarounds

If upgrading is not possible, place the MCP server behind a reverse proxy configured to reject requests whose `Host` header is not one of the expected hostnames. Do not bind the MCP server to `0.0.0.0` without such validation.