CVE-2025-11489

Summary

A security vulnerability has been detected in wonderwhy-er DesktopCommanderMCP up to 0.2.13. This vulnerability affects the function isPathAllowed of the file src/tools/filesystem.ts. The manipulation leads to symlink following. The attack can only be performed from a local environment. The attack's complexity is rated as high. It is stated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The vendor explains: "Our restriction features are designed as guardrails for LLMs to help them stay closer to what users want, rather than hardened security boundaries. (…) For users where security is a top priority, we continue to recommend using Desktop Commander with Docker, which provides actual isolation. (…) We'll keep this issue open for future consideration if we receive more user demand for improved restrictions." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.0affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.1affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.2affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.3affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.4affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.5affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.6affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.7affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.8affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.9affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.10affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.11affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.12affected
wonderwhy-erDesktopCommanderMCP0.2.13affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-61: Symlink Following
  • CWE-59: Link Following

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References