{"id":"CVE-2026-7318","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-7318","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T13:13:43.264Z","title":"A vulnerability was detected in elie mcp-project 0.1.0.","description":"A vulnerability was detected in elie mcp-project 0.1.0. The affected element is the function search_papers of the file research_server.py. The manipulation of the argument topic results in path traversal. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit is now public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.","published":"2026-04-28T22:16:52.000Z","lastModified":"2026-07-24T08:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cna@vuldb.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":2,"severity":"LOW","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00185,"percentile":0.08002,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/elie/mcp-research-server/issues/1","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/submit/803083","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/vuln/359971","source":"cna@vuldb.com"},{"url":"https://vuldb.com/vuln/359971/cti","source":"cna@vuldb.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7318","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}