{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0197",
 "incident_id": "2026-08-dolt-mcp-unauthenticated-tool-execution",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-08-14",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "title": "Lose control flow: a missing return in Dolt MCP's JWT middleware plus forgeable session IDs allow unauthenticated tool execution against the database",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "attack_surface": "mcp_server",
 "initial_vector": "unauthenticated_http_request_to_remote_mcp_endpoint",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "mcp_tool_dispatch",
  "database_read_write"
 ],
 "target_product": "Dolt MCP server (< 0.3.7)",
 "target_vendor": "DoltHub",
 "autonomy_level": "semi_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "data_exfiltration",
  "unauthorized_modification",
  "destructive_action"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "remote Dolt MCP deployments including DoltHub-hosted infrastructure",
 "cve": [
  "CVE-2026-73554"
 ],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI06",
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "authentication_bypass",
   "missing_return_statement",
   "session_id_forgery",
   "mcp_transport_security"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "JWT authentication middleware and session ID manager",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "fixed in 0.3.7 on 2026-08-04; DoltHub patched hosted infrastructure immediately",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.pillar.security/blog/lose-control-flow-unauthenticated-tool-execution-in-dolt-mcp"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "An unauthenticated attacker could therefore submit an invalid forged credentials and a locally generated session ID, reach tool dispatch, and execute Dolt MCP operations.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Pillar Security (Ariel Fogel). Reported 2026-08-03, patched 2026-08-04, CVE-2026-73554 / GHSA-mgpq-fxxc-h49q issued 2026-08-13, disclosed 2026-08-14. Ordinary web-auth bugs in MCP transports are an under-recorded category next to prompt injection; two independent defects composed into one unauthenticated request.",
 "risk_category": "privacy",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Data Exfiltration via Context",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "ai_as_target",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "a missing return in JWT middleware allows unauthenticated tool dispatch",
 "vector_family": "conventional_vulnerability",
 "vector_detail": "unauthenticated_http_request_to_remote_mcp_endpoint",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "authentication"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [
   "CVE-2026-73554"
  ],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI06",
 "agent_framework": "mcp_server",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "external_researcher",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "data_exfiltration_channels",
 "eai_domain": "privacy",
 "eai_secondary": [
  "unsafe_actuation"
 ],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Data Exfiltration via Context",
 "asi_curated": [
  "ASI06"
 ],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "curated_plus_rule",
 "asi_reason": "curated: ASI06 | added ASI03 (signal=identity)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}