CVE-2026-49857: auth-fetch-mcp has SSRF Protection Bypass via IPv4-mapped IPv6 Loopback
auth-fetch-mcp v3.0.1 implements SSRF protection in assertSafeUrl() (src/security.ts) to block requests to private and loopback addresses. However, the isPrivateV6() function fails to detect IPv4-mapped IPv6 loopback addresses in their hex-normalized form. When an attacker supplies a URL such as http://[::ffff:127.0.0.1]:PORT/, the Node.js WHATWG URL parser silently normalizes the host to [::ffff:7f00:1]. Because net.isIPv4('7f00:1') returns false, the private-IP check is bypassed and the URL is passed to the browser or HTTP client, allowing the MCP tool to reach loopback services that are supposed to be blocked. The issue is exploitable under default configuration without any special environment variable and carries a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 7.4 (High).
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