CVE-2026-45018: Chainlit has command injection via MCP stdio transport that allows unauthenticated remote code execution
When MCP is enabled (features.mcp.enabled = true), the POST /mcp endpoint for stdio transport accepts a user-controlled fullCommand string. The validate_mcp_command() function checks the executable name against a configurable allowlist but does not inspect or restrict the arguments. An attacker can pass npx -y -c 'ARBITRARY COMMAND' to execute arbitrary shell commands on the server with the privileges of the Chainlit process.
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