CVE-2026-45781

Low

Description

The MCP Registry provides MCP clients with a list of MCP servers, like an app store for MCP servers. Prior to 1.7.9, OCI ownership validation skips label-match check when upstream OCI registry returns HTTP 429, letting any authenticated publisher bind their io.github.<user>/* namespace to OCI images they do not control. internal/validators/registries/oci.go:104-119 fails open on http.StatusTooManyRequests: when the registry's anonymous fetch to the upstream OCI registry is rate-limited, ValidateOCI returns nil and the publish is accepted without ever running the io.modelcontextprotocol.server.name label-match check at lines 122-141. That label check is the only cross-system ownership proof the registry applies to OCI packages — every other registry type (NPM, PyPI, NuGet, MCPB) treats a non-200 upstream response as a hard error. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.7.9.

SeverityLow
CVSS3.5
Exploit probability—
ProductGithub.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry
PublishedMay 14, 2026
First seenMay 14, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-636CWE-636

How to fix

Update
  • github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry1.7.9 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registryGov < 1.7.91.7.9

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