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Description

A vulnerability was identified in duartium papers-mcp-server 9ceb3812a6458ba7922ca24a7406f8807bc55598. Impacted is the function search_papers of the file src/main.py. Such manipulation of the argument topic leads to path traversal. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit is publicly available and might be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-27 | Published 2026-04-28 | Updated 2026-04-28 | Assigner VulDB




MEDIUM: 6.9CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
HIGH: 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
HIGH: 7.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R
7.5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR

Problem types

Path Traversal

Product status

9ceb3812a6458ba7922ca24a7406f8807bc55598
affected

Timeline

2026-04-27:Advisory disclosed
2026-04-27:VulDB entry created
2026-04-27:VulDB entry last update

Credits

SmallW (VulDB User) reporter

VulDB CNA Team coordinator

References

vuldb.com/vuln/359805 (VDB-359805 | duartium papers-mcp-server main.py search_papers path traversal) vdb-entry technical-description

vuldb.com/vuln/359805/cti (VDB-359805 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, TTP, IOA)) signature permissions-required

vuldb.com/submit/802080 (Submit #802080 | duartium papers-mcp-server 0.1.0 Path Traversal) third-party-advisory

github.com/duartium/papers-mcp-server/issues/1 exploit issue-tracking

github.com/duartium/papers-mcp-server/ product

cve.org (CVE-2026-7205)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-7205)

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