{
 "public_id": "AIR-2026-0260",
 "incident_id": "2026-09-ibm-contextforge-default-credentials",
 "date_disclosed": "2026-09-10",
 "title": "CVE-2026-78573: IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway ships default credentials that grant administrative access",
 "attack_surface": "mcp_server",
 "initial_vector": "default_credentials",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "mcp_gateway_administration"
 ],
 "target_product": "IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway",
 "target_vendor": "IBM",
 "autonomy_level": "assistant",
 "impact_realized": false,
 "impact_type": [
  "unauthorized_administrative_access"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "ContextForge MCP Gateway 1.0.0 through 1.0.7",
 "cve": [
  "CVE-2026-78573"
 ],
 "fix_shipped": "v1.0.10, per IBM's security bulletin",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7286834",
  "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-87q9-x2gp-qchr",
  "https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-78573"
 ],
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "IBM's own security bulletin carries the quote. It explains that three password settings (platform admin, default user and basic-auth passwords) ship with a publicly known default value; if an operator enables basic authentication or the administrative interface without setting a password, the gateway accepts the default and only logs a startup warning. The bulletin rates it critical (CVSS 9.8) and tells operators to upgrade to v1.0.10 and set strong passwords before enabling those features. The bulletin is inconsistent about scope: its affected-versions table says v1.0.0 to v1.0.7, while its fix table says v1.0.0 to v1.0.9; the blast radius above follows the affected table, and the wider range may apply. The GitHub advisory GHSA-87q9-x2gp-qchr and the OSV record repeat the CVE description (published 2026-09-10) as '1.0.0 through 1.0.7'. No exploitation is reported. A separate ContextForge record covers the jq filter flaw; the earlier ContextForge record in the corpus (CVE-2026-53710) is a different CVE.",
 "verified_quote": "MCP Context Forge could allow a remote attacker to gain administrative access due to the use of default credentials.",
 "class": "responsible_disclosure",
 "date_occurred": null,
 "defense_present": null,
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [
   "ASI03"
  ],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "default_credentials",
   "mcp_gateway",
   "missing_authentication"
  ]
 },
 "risk_category": "unmapped",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "generative",
 "agency": "ai_as_target",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "shipped default credentials on an MCP gateway; no model action in the chain",
 "vector_family": "conventional_vulnerability",
 "vector_detail": "default_credentials",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "unknown"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [
   "CVE-2026-78573"
  ],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "ASI03",
 "agent_framework": "mcp_server",
 "model_provider": "unknown",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "privilege_escalation",
 "eai_domain": "access_control_and_permissions",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "vector default: conventional_vulnerability",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "in_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "rule",
 "asi_reason": "ASI03 (eai_category=privilege_escalation, no code execution)",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}