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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.0 High

CVE-2026-14541

Authentication Bypass and Audience Confusion in MCP Toolbox OAuth Provider

Description

An authentication bypass and audience confusion vulnerability exists in the Google OAuth provider component of Google mcp-toolbox version 1.4.0. When a Google authService is initialized with mcpEnabled: true but lacks an explicitly defined audience or clientId, the ValidateMCPAuth pipeline for opaque tokens skips audience validation entirely. As a result, the toolbox will accept any valid Google OAuth access token—even those minted for unrelated ecosystem applications—granting unauthorized clients access to protected tools and data backends.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Google mcp-toolbox

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.4.0affected

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