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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-54688 EUVD-2026-78923GHSA-q87f-qc2r-2gw4

mcp-searxng: SSRF in web_url_read: the internal-address guard is disabled by default (MCP_HTTP_HARDEN off)

Published Sep 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

mcp-searxng is a Model Context Protocol server that gives AI assistants web search and URL-reading capabilities through SearXNG. Prior to 1.2.0, web_url_read passes a caller-supplied URL to the server-side fetch path while assertUrlAllowed() in src/url-reader.ts runs only when MCP_HTTP_HARDEN is enabled, even though MCP_HTTP_HARDEN is disabled by default in src/http-security.ts. In the default configuration, an attacker who influences the URL selected by a user or AI agent can make the server fetch loopback, private-network, or cloud metadata endpoint resources and return their contents into the model context. file:// URLs remain rejected, and the separate DNS-resolution and redirect-validation bypasses are outside this record. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ihor-sokoliuk mcp-searxng < 1.2.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm mcp-searxng < 1.2.1 1.2.1 GHSA-q87f-qc2r-2gw4

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