mcp-ffmpeg through 1.0.5 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to run shell commands by supplying crafted…
CVE-2026-117568
mcp-ffmpeg through 1.0.5 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows attackers to run shell commands by supplying crafted videoPath or outputDir values to the resize-video, extract-audio and get-video-info tools. Attackers can embed $(), backticks or a closing double quote in an existing file or directory name to break out of the childprocess.exec command string and execute commands as the MCP server user.
Part of the AI stack
This affects Model Context Protocol, in MCP & tool servers.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 7.3 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 27 October 2026
- Last updated
- 28 October 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Assigner
- disclosure@vulncheck.com
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
At the source
References
- https://github.com/bitscorp-mcp/mcp-ffmpeg
- https://github.com/bitscorp-mcp/mcp-ffmpeg/blob/2ec04e44850cc5ee5354c40643be8bc91c218654/src/mcp-ffmpeg.ts#L184
- https://github.com/bitscorp-mcp/mcp-ffmpeg/issues/8
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mcp-ffmpeg-through-1.0.5-os-command-injection-via-videopath-and-outputdir
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