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HIGH8.5

GHSA-4ggg-h7ph-26qr

n8n-mcp has authenticated SSRF via instance-URL header in multi-tenant HTTP mode

Quick fix

GHSA-4ggg-h7ph-26qr — n8n-mcp: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install n8n-mcp@2.47.4

Details

## Impact An authenticated Server-Side Request Forgery in `n8n-mcp` allows a caller holding a valid `AUTH_TOKEN` to cause the server to issue HTTP requests to arbitrary URLs supplied through multi-tenant HTTP headers. Response bodies are reflected back through JSON-RPC, so an attacker can read the contents of any URL the server can reach — including cloud instance metadata endpoints (AWS IMDS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, Oracle), internal network services, and any other host the server process has network access to.

The primary at-risk deployments are multi-tenant HTTP installations where more than one operator can present a valid `AUTH_TOKEN`, or where a token is shared with less-trusted clients. Single-tenant stdio deployments and HTTP deployments without multi-tenant headers are not affected.

## Affected versions `n8n-mcp` ≤ `2.47.3` (all versions up to and including 2.47.3).

## Patched versions `n8n-mcp` `2.47.4` and later.

## Workarounds If you cannot immediately upgrade: 1. **Egress filtering at the network layer** — block outbound traffic from the `n8n-mcp` container to RFC1918 ranges (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12, 192.168.0.0/16), link-local `169.254.0.0/16`, and any other internal ranges. This defends against any future SSRF-class issue and is recommended even after upgrading. 2. **Disable multi-tenant headers** — if your deployment does not require per-request instance switching, unset `ENABLE_MULTI_TENANT` and do not accept `x-n8n-url` / `x-n8n-key` headers at the reverse proxy. 3. **Restrict `AUTH_TOKEN` distribution** — ensure the bearer token is only held by fully trusted operators until you can upgrade.

## Remediation Upgrade to `n8n-mcp` 2.47.4 or later. No configuration changes are required; the fix adds validation at the URL entry points and normalizes URLs at the API client layer.

## Credits Reported by the Eresus Security Research Team. @ibrahmsql

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Affected packages

npm/n8n-mcp
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 2.47.4
Fixnpm install n8n-mcp@2.47.4

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