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CVE-2026-10691 — A security flaw has been discovered in wonderwhy-er DesktopCommanderMCP up to 0.2.38

Medium CVSS 4.3

A security flaw has been discovered in wonderwhy-er DesktopCommanderMCP up to 0.2.38. This impacts an unknown function of the file src/search-manager.ts of the component start_search. Performing a manipulation of the argument SearchResult[] results in inefficient regular expression complexity. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 0.2.39 will fix this issue. The patch is named 4ce845f8749b6a159b57b38dcc3357f7222a8078. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
4.3 (3.1)
Published
2026-06-03
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-1333

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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