CVE-2026-45018: Chainlit

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Chainlit is a Python framework for building production-ready conversational AI applications. From 2.4.0rc0 until 2.12.0, Chainlit deployments with features.mcp.enabled set to true in .chainlit/config.toml expose the POST /mcp endpoint without requiring authentication. For stdio transport, the endpoint accepts a user-controlled fullCommand string. The validate_mcp_command() function in backend/chainlit/mcp.py checks only the executable name against config.features.mcp.stdio.allowed_executables and passes unchecked arguments to StdioServerParameters in backend/chainlit/server.py. Because npx supports the -c argument, an attacker can execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the Chainlit process. If allowed_executables is unset, its None default is treated as allowing every executable. This issue is fixed in version 2.12.0.

Affected products

• Chainlit Chainlit: from 2.4.0rc0, before 2.12.0 (fixed in 2.12.0)

Published 2026-08-25. Last modified 2026-09-09.