The MCP SSE endpoint in oatpp-mcp returns an instance pointer as the session ID, which is not unique nor cryptographically secure. This allows network attackers with access to the oatpp-mcp server to guess future session IDs and hijack legitimate client MCP sessions, returning malicious responses from the oatpp-mcp server.
Weakness
The product uses insufficiently random numbers or values in a security context that depends on unpredictable numbers.
Potential Mitigations
- Use a well-vetted algorithm that is currently considered to be strong by experts in the field, and select well-tested implementations with adequate length seeds.
- In general, if a pseudo-random number generator is not advertised as being cryptographically secure, then it is probably a statistical PRNG and should not be used in security-sensitive contexts.
- Pseudo-random number generators can produce predictable numbers if the generator is known and the seed can be guessed. A 256-bit seed is a good starting point for producing a “random enough” number.
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