CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-7205

HighCVSS 7.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.43%

35th percentile - higher than 35% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in duartium papers-mcp-server (commit 9ceb3812a6458ba7922ca24a7406f8807bc55598) in the search_papers function of src/main.py allows path traversal via the topic argument. The attack can be launched remotely and the exploit is publicly available.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely read arbitrary files on the server, potentially leading to sensitive data leakage or further attack escalation.

Recommendation

Contact the project author immediately for a patch or temporarily disable the search_papers function if possible.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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