GHSA-w2fm-25vw-vh7f
mcp-handler has a tool response leak across concurrent client sessions ('Race Condition')
Quick fix
GHSA-w2fm-25vw-vh7f — mcp-handler: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install mcp-handler@1.1.0Details
`mcp-handler` versions prior to 1.1.0 accepted `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` < 1.26.0 as a peer dependency. That SDK version contains a vulnerability [[CVE-2026-25536](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25536)] that causes concurrent requests from different clients to share server-side state including authentication context and tool execution results when a `StreamableHTTPServerTransport` instance is reused across requests.
**Note:** This is _not_ a vulnerability in `mcp-handler` itself. The root cause is in the peer dependency `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk`.
### Impact
A low-privileged attacker making concurrent requests to an `mcp-handler` endpoint can read another client's session data, including authentication information and tool execution state. This is a confidentiality breach with potential for limited integrity impact.
**Root Cause:** [CVE-2026-25536](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25536) in `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` < 1.26.0. The SDK did not prevent reuse of stateless transports across client connections.
### Patches
Upgrade to `mcp-handler@1.1.0`. This release raises the minimum peer dependency to `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@>=1.26.0`, which contains the fix for CVE-2026-25536.
### Workarounds
- Upgrade `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` to `>=1.26.0` (note: the SDK will throw on transport reuse, which will break `mcp-handler` < 1.1.0 which effectively forces the upgrade) - Alternatively, manually create fresh `McpServer` and transport instances per request in your handler code
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