CVE-2026-53708

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.66.6—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 6.6 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4% (26th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, secondary
Elevated
6.6EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 6.6Exploit: Elevated riskExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

ContextForge is an AI gateway, registry, and proxy that provides centralized discovery, guardrails, and management for MCP, A2A, and REST or gRPC APIs. Prior to 1.0.3, the /admin/gateways/test call site in mcpgateway/admin.py calls validate_gateway_test_url() in mcpgateway/common/validators.py to resolve and reject private, loopback, link-local, and cloud-metadata addresses, but ResilientHttpClient later resolves the original hostname again without binding the validated address. When MCPGATEWAY_ADMIN_API_ENABLED is enabled, an attacker with a database-backed role containing explicit gateways.read permission can use DNS rebinding to return a public address during validation and a private or metadata address during connection, bypassing ssrf_blocked_networks and ssrf_dns_fail_closed because those controls apply only to the validation-time result. The endpoint's allow_admin_bypass=False setting means a bootstrap-only virtual platform-admin identity without a database role is not sufficient. Successful exploitation can reach internal services and cloud metadata, expose cloud credentials, access internal APIs, or probe internal network ports. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.3.

CVSS v3
6.6
EG Score
6.6MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
46
EG Risk 46/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity66% × 45%
Exploitation40% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
26th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 14, 2026

Last Modified

September 30, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 14, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available. Sources: github, github_commit, github_release.
github_release Patch Available

v1.0.3 - Auth & JWT Cleanup, Admin UI Fixes, FedRAMP/FIPS Hardening, and Bug Fixes

Patch available: IBM/mcp-context-forge v1.0.3

https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge/releases/tag/v1.0.3
github_commit

commit fba11a99babd (IBM/mcp-context-forge)

Fix landed in IBM/mcp-context-forge commit fba11a99babd — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge/commit/fba11a99babd80779fa05510b35fb6a153bbacaf
github Patch Available🟡 PoC Available

DNS TOCTOU race condition causes SSRF protection bypass (`/admin/gateways/test`) · Advisory · IBM/mcp-context-forge · GitHub

https://github.com/IBM/mcp-context-forge/security/advisories/GHSA-9hgc-g3w5-67cm

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-53708(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
PyPI(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
mcp-contextforge-gateway0.1.0 ... 1.0.2 (17 versions)
  • every version up to 1.0.3: fixed in 1.0.3
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Weakness Classification(3)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-53708?
CVE-2026-53708 is a medium vulnerability published on August 14, 2026. ContextForge is an AI gateway, registry, and proxy that provides centralized discovery, guardrails, and management for MCP, A2A, and REST or gRPC APIs. Prior to 1.0.3, the /admin/gateways/test call site in mcpgateway/admin.py calls validategatewaytesturl() in mcpgateway/common/validators.py to…
When was CVE-2026-53708 disclosed?
CVE-2026-53708 was first published on August 14, 2026, with the most recent update on September 30, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-53708 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-53708 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (26th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-53708?
CVE-2026-53708 has a CVSS base score of 6.6 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-53708?
A fix for CVE-2026-53708 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-53708 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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