CVE-2026-115477obsidian-tc: Declined human-in-the-loop confirmations can permit destructive calls over HTTP
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obsidian-tc is a governed, agent-ready Model Context Protocol server for Obsidian vaults. From 1.13.0 until 1.31.4, on a Streamable HTTP deployment with `auth.jwtSecret` configured and a 2026-07-28-era client declaring `elicitation.form` support, a dispatch-gated tool call offered an `inputRequired` confirmation could still complete after the human declined or cancelled, or the elicitation response was omitted or malformed, provided the client echoed the validly bound `requestState` on resubmission. The server trusted an authentic, call-bound state as proof of approval even though that state was minted before the `elicitation/create` leg was asked and proved only that the resubmission belonged to the same call. A client behaving incorrectly or under an attacker's control could therefore execute dispatch-gated destructive vault operations without the human's approval, while still requiring the caller's ordinary tool permissions. Only tools marked `destructive: true` or requiring a scope with a human-in-the-loop floor were reachable through this bypass. The sixteen handler-side conditionally gated tools, including `write_note` overwrite and `move_note`, did not read elicitation state on the modern wire and let neither approval nor decline through that path. Affected deployments using stdio or leaving `auth.jwtSecret` unset instead used the CLI `elicit_token` fallback and did not offer this `requestState` round trip. The fix does not prevent a malicious client from reporting a fabricated approval, because the server cannot verify that the client displayed the form or that a human saw it. This issue is fixed in version 1.31.4.
- CVSS
- 7.1 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-285, CWE-863
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- 0.50% (percentile 42)
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Oct 23, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 23, 2026
Affected products
The-40-Thieves obsidian-tc 40_thieves:obsidian_tc (from the name) | from 1.13.0, < 1.31.4 | CNA record |
References
- https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/obsidian-tc/security/advisories/GHSA-737x-cwfr-5vvcx-refsource-confirm
- https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/obsidian-tc/issues/967x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/obsidian-tc/pull/969x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/obsidian-tc/commit/101c91c656e2c2b88bcf3696a5da035f8c032c71x-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/obsidian-tc/blob/v1.31.4/CHANGELOG.mdx-refsource-misc
- https://github.com/The-40-Thieves/obsidian-tc/releases/tag/v1.31.4x-refsource-misc
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