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incidents/AIR-2026-1044

CVE-2026-40576: Path traversal in excel-mcp-server

Attack on AI2 Disclosed vulnerabilityInfrastructure vulnerability

A path traversal vulnerability affects excel-mcp-server versions up to 0.1.7 when running in SSE or HTTP transport modes. Unauthenticated network attackers can read and write arbitrary files on the host filesystem via tool handlers.

disclosed CVENo confirmed exploitation, so this record is tracked as a disclosed vulnerability and not counted as an incident. It moves into the counts if CISA or the vendor confirms exploitation. Why

Details

type
Attack on AI
An AI model, agent or AI-powered product was the thing exploited, abused or leaked.
categories
  • Infrastructure vulnerability
    CVEs and advisories in AI frameworks, inference servers, MCP servers, AI developer tools and hosting stacks.
owasp llm top 10
mitre atlas
no technique for these categories
Both rows are derived from the type and categories (OWASP 2025 edition, ATLAS release 2026.09), not classified per record. How
severity
2 · Disclosed vulnerability
CVE or vendor advisory, patched or patchable, no confirmed exploitation.
targets
Framework / tooling
products
excel-mcp-server
incident date
21 Apr 2026
first reported
21 Apr 2026
origin
NVD
Vulnerability record from NVD / the GitHub Advisory Database. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
classifier confidence
0.95 · published at or above 0.80; see the methodology
tags
CVE-2026-40576 · path_traversal · infra_vuln · mcp_server
record
created 2026-10-18 10:04Z · updated 2026-10-18 10:04Z · json

Sources · 1

  1. 2026-04-21
    CVE-2026-40576: excel-mcp-server is a Model Context Protocol server for Excel file manipulation.
    NVD · nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40576

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