CVE-2026-40576
excel-mcp-server
- Severity
- Critical
- Published
- April 21, 2026
- Last modified
- June 17, 2026
excel-mcp-server is a Model Context Protocol server for Excel file manipulation. A path traversal vulnerability exists in excel-mcp-server versions up to and including 0.1.7. When running in SSE or Streamable-HTTP transport mode (the documented way to use this server remotely), an unauthenticated attacker on the network can read, write, and overwrite arbitrary files on the host filesystem by supplying crafted filepath arguments to any of the 25 exposed MCP tool handlers. The server is intended to confine file operations to a directory set by the EXCEL_FILES_PATH environment variable. The function responsible for enforcing this boundary — get_excel_path() — fails to do so due to two independent flaws: it passes absolute paths through without any check, and it joins relative paths without resolving or validating the result. Combined with zero authentication on the default network-facing transport and a default bind address of 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces), this allows trivial remote exploitation. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.1.8.
CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H
Weakness
- CWE-22 Path traversal
References
Listed in
Related CVEs
The officially documented Azure one-click deployment uses infrastructure/azuredeploy.json and infrastructure/main.bicep to default the apiKey parameter to an empty string and pass it to the App Service…
Trigger.dev cli-v3 from 3.0.0 before 4.5.4 contains a missing authentication vulnerability in the trigger dev --mcp server, which binds all network interfaces and exposes the /sse and /messages endpoints.
IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway 0.1.0 through 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a server-side request Forgery (SSRF) that allows authenticated users with gateway creation privileges to perform arbitrary HTTP POST…
djust provides Phoenix LiveView-style reactive server-side rendering for Django with Rust-powered performance.
A security flaw has been discovered in mcollina mcp-ripgrep up to 0.4.0.
The experimental tasks feature (taskStore) did not check which session created a task.