PT-2026-1558 · Microsoft · Playwright Mcp Server

Jonathan Leitschuh · CVE-2025-9611 · Published 2026-01-07 · Updated 2026-01-07

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Playwright MCP Server versions prior to 0.0.40

Description The software does not properly validate the Origin header on incoming connections. This allows an attacker to perform a DNS rebinding attack via a victim’s web browser and send unauthorized requests to a locally running MCP server. This can lead to unintended invocation of MCP tool endpoints.

Recommendations Update to version 0.0.40 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-749

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-9611

GHSA-6FG3-HVW7-2FWQ

GHSA-8RGW-6XP9-2FG3

Affected Products

Playwright Mcp Server

References · 14

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/9xxx/CVE-2025-9611.json · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/JLLeitschuh/security-research/security/advisories/GHSA-8rgw-6xp9-2fg3 · Exploit
• https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/commit/1313fbd · Patch
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/report/vulnerability/VULN-164412 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9611 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-9611 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-6fg3-hvw7-2fwq · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/microsoft/playwright · Note
• https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp · Note
• https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-mcp/issues/1206 · Note
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2008771281983070635 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/0dayPublishing/status/2008760731261387180 · Twitter Post
• https://vulncheck.com/advisories/microsoft-playwright-mcp-server-dns-rebinding-via-missing-origin-header-validation · Note
• https://t.me/CVEtracker/41565 · Telegram Post