bitbonsai/mcpvault · Security
MCPVault: PathFilter restricted-directory deny-list bypass via case and trailing dot/space equivalence
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-j99q-93c9-h869
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-57441
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
On case-insensitive filesystems (macOS, Windows), PathFilter compiled its deny-list patterns case-sensitively and matched the path verbatim, so names like .Git/config, .GIT/config, or .oBsIdIaN/secrets.md slipped past the .git/.obsidian/node_modules restriction while the OS opened the real file. On Windows, trailing dots/spaces (.git./config, .git /config) bypassed it the same way. Affects both isAllowed (read/write/move/search) and isAllowedForListing. Vault-root .. containment is NOT affected. Fixed in 0.11.4 by case-insensitive matching plus per-segment canonicalization before the deny-list check. Reported privately by novice-22.
CWEs
- CWE-41 · Improper Resolution of Path Equivalence
- CWE-178 · Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity