CVE-2026-77262: MCP Atlassian: Path Traversal / Arbitrary File Read in confluence_upload_attachment MCP tool (incomplete fix of GHSA-xjgw-4wvw-rgm4)
mcp-atlassian exposes an MCP tool confluence_upload_attachment whose file_path argument is passed directly to open(file_path, "rb") without any path validation. An attacker able to invoke the tool can read arbitrary files readable by the server process and exfiltrate them into a multipart upload directed at an attacker-controlled Confluence host. In the default streamable-http transport the server binds 0.0.0.0 with no built-in authentication, making this remotely exploitable without credentials.
This is the read-side symmetric twin of GHSA-xjgw-4wvw-rgm4 / CVE-2026-27825 (fixed in v0.17.0). The v0.17.0 patch only covered the download/write path; the upload path that reads local files was left unguarded.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-p6hp-93wp-fh6p
- github.com/sooperset/mcp-atlassian/commit/b041733473f95119dd539542a43c280737a8e460
- github.com/sooperset/mcp-atlassian/pull/1448
- github.com/sooperset/mcp-atlassian/releases/tag/v0.22.0
- github.com/sooperset/mcp-atlassian/security/advisories/GHSA-p6hp-93wp-fh6p
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77262
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