CVE-2026-14541

HIGH

Authentication Bypass and Audience Confusion in MCP Toolbox OAuth Provider

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

An authentication bypass and audience confusion vulnerability exists in the Google OAuth provider component of Google mcp-toolbox version 1.4.0. When a Google authService is initialized with mcpEnabled: true but lacks an explicitly defined audience or clientId, the ValidateMCPAuth pipeline for opaque tokens skips audience validation entirely. As a result, the toolbox will accept any valid Google OAuth access token—even those minted for unrelated ecosystem applications—granting unauthorized clients access to protected tools and data backends.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v4 8.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/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

Details

CWE
CWE-287
Status published
Products (1)
Google/mcp-toolbox 1.4.0
Published Jul 31, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 31, 2026