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1 vulnerability by joshuayoes
CVE-2025-52573 (GCVE-0-2025-52573)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-26 14:08 – Updated: 2025-06-26 17:37
VLAI
Title
Command Injection in MCP Server ios-simulator-mcp
Summary
iOS Simulator MCP Server (ios-simulator-mcp) is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for interacting with iOS simulators. Versions prior to 1.3.3 are written in a way that is vulnerable to command injection vulnerability attacks as part of some of its MCP Server tool definition and implementation. The MCP Server exposes the tool `ui_tap` which relies on Node.js child process API `exec` which is an unsafe and vulnerable API if concatenated with untrusted user input. LLM exposed user input for `duration`, `udid`, and `x` and `y` args can be replaced with shell meta-characters like `;` or `&&` or others to change the behavior from running the expected command `idb` to another command. When LLMs are tricked through prompt injection (and other techniques and attack vectors) to call the tool with input that uses special shell characters such as `; rm -rf /tmp;#` and other payload variations, the full command-line text will be interepted by the shell and result in other commands except of `ps` executing on the host running the MCP Server. Version 1.3.3 contains a patch for the issue.
Severity
6 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp/s… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp/c… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp/b… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/joshuayoes/ios-simulator-mcp/r… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| joshuayoes | ios-simulator-mcp |
Affected:
< 1.3.3
|
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