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CVSS 8.5 HIGH Vulnerability

CVE-2026-42449: n8n-mcp's IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses bypass SSRF protection in validateUrlSync(), enablin…

Impact In the SDK embedder path (N8NDocumentationMCPServer constructor, getN8nApiClient(), and validateInstanceContext()), the synchronous URL validator in SSRFProtection.validateUrlSync() had no IPv6 checks. IPv4-mappe…

8.5CVSS Score
HIGHSeverity
NOCISA KEV
VulnerabilityImpact Type

📋 Vulnerability Details

CVE IDCVE-2026-42449
Vendornpm
Affected Productn8n-mcp
Vulnerability TypeVulnerability
CVSS Score8.5 (HIGH)
Actively Exploited❌ No known exploitation
Patch StatusSee Vendor Advisory →
Reported ByCYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via github_advisories)

🔬 Technical Analysis

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Impact In the SDK embedder path (N8NDocumentationMCPServer constructor, getN8nApiClient(), and validateInstanceContext()), the synchronous URL validator in SSRFProtection.validateUrlSync() had no IPv6 checks. IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses such as http://[::ffff:169.254.169.254] bypassed the cloud-metadata, localhost, and private-IP range checks. An attacker able to supply an n8nApiUrl value could cause the server to issue HTTP requests to cloud metadata endpoints (AWS IMDS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, Oracle), RFC1918 private networks, or localhost services. Response bodies are returned to the caller (non-blind SSRF), and the n8nApiKey is forwarded in the x-n8n-api-key header to the attacker-controlled target. The first-party HTTP server deployment was not primarily affected — it

🎯 Known Indicators of Compromise

{"type":"ipv4","value":"169.254.169.254","confidence_score":0.88,"first_seen":"2026-04-30","source_count":1} {"type":"url","value":"http://[::ffff:169.254.169.254]`","confidence_score":0.82,"first_seen":"2026-04-30","source_count":1}

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