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Critical Vulnerability in Anthropic's MCP Exposes Developer Machines to Remote Exploits

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()6 min read10 · 2 reads
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2025-49596
Unauthenticated RCE in Anthropic MCP Inspector (versions below 0.14.1)
9.443%

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6 min read at thehackernews.com

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security vulnerability in artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic's Model Context Protocol ( MCP ) Inspector project that could result in remote code execution (RCE) and allow an attacker to gain complete access to the hosts. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-49596 , carries a CVSS score of 9. 4 out of a maximum of 10.

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