AnkiMCP is an Anki addon that implements an MCP server, enabling AI assistants to interact with the Anki flashcard application.
CVE-2026-61546
AnkiMCP is an Anki addon that implements an MCP server, enabling AI assistants to interact with the Anki flashcard application. Prior to version 0.21.0, ankimcpserver/mcpserver.py globally disables FastMCP DNS-rebinding protection through TransportSecuritySettings with enablednsrebindingprotection=False, including for the default local Streamable HTTP listener. The defaults in ankimcpserver/config.py enable httpenabled on 127.0.0.1:3141, with an empty httppath selecting the root endpoint. No bearer token, API key, session secret, strict Host allowlist or strict Origin allowlist is enforced before initialize, tools/list and tools/call reach MCP dispatch. A victim who visits a malicious web page while Anki and the listener are running can have browser requests rebound to loopback, allowing the attacker to initialize MCP, enumerate tools, read the local collection, and perform enabled non-destructive note/deck creation or updates. The attacker needs neither LAN position nor a local process. Available operations depend on enabled tool filters; destructive tools are hidden unless enableddestructivetools is opted into, limiting deletion-level impact but not the exposed read/write…
Part of the AI stack
This affects Model Context Protocol, in MCP & tool servers.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.8 (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
- 28 October 2026
- Last updated
- 29 October 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-346, CWE-350
- Assigner
- security-advisories@github.com
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/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/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/commit/6dcb6939b0ecc0801f45cf0d241dc946aad1654f
- https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/commit/d5306ff42d68f1e3b82a96878eb059437e820316
- https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/security/advisories/GHSA-j9xx-59ph-wmr6
- https://github.com/ankimcp/anki-mcp-server-addon/tree/v0.21.0
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