CVE-2025-53818 (GCVE-0-2025-53818)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-14 20:30 – Updated: 2025-07-15 19:50
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Title
github-kanban-mcp-server Command Injection vulnerability
Summary
GitHub Kanban MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for managing GitHub issues in Kanban board format and streamlining LLM task management. Version 0.3.0 of the MCP Server is 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 `add_comment` which relies on Node.js child process API `exec` to execute the GitHub (`gh`) command, is an unsafe and vulnerable API if concatenated with untrusted user input. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.
Severity ?
8.9 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Sunwood-ai-labs github-kanban-mcp-server Affected: = 0.3.0
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