Rapid7 Bulk Export MCP — GraphQL Query Injection in Export Status Lookup
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Rapid7 Bulk Export MCP versions 0.2.5 through 0.6.1 suffer from a GraphQL query injection issue in the export-status component (`get_export_status` in `src/export_manager.py`), whereby the `export_id` value — an unvalidated MCP tool argument reaching the function via the `check_rapid7_export_status` and `download_rapid7_export` tools — is interpolated directly into the GraphQL query string. A crafted `export_id` containing quote and brace characters can terminate the intended `export(id: "...")` selection early and append attacker-controlled root-level selections (for example, schema introspection), producing a single well-formed GraphQL document that is then sent to the Rapid7 export API under the operator's own API key. Notably, this issue does not grant an existing actor any access they do not already have: every injected query executes within the operator's own already-authenticated API scope, using the operator's own valid API key, and cannot cross a tenant or account boundary. A directly-malicious operator gains nothing they could not already do by calling the API directly; the realistic exposure is limited to a compromised or careless upstream MCP client, or indirect prompt injection forwarding an unvalidated identifier. This is fixed in version 0.6.2, which passes `export_id` as a parameterized GraphQL variable (`$exportId: ID!`).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Platform (Rapid7) Fixed in 0.6.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-97228
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pwmm-7g3w-8pvp
References
More Rapid7 vulnerabilities
- TI-2023-01233 Rapid7 InsightCloudSec resource.db() method access CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-01231 Rapid7 InsightCloudSec getattr() method access CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2023-01232 Rapid7 InsightCloudSec box object access CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
- TI-2024-00358 Rapid7 Minerva Armor Privilege Escalation CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2024-02985 Rapid7 Insight Agent Sensitive Key Exposed To Local Users CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8
- TI-2019-04008 Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP Handler Denial of Service CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2026-97228 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-97228 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pwmm-7g3w-8pvp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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