Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity Affecting flux-operator package, versions <0.43.0-r1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-FLUXOPERATOR-15385271
  • published4 Mar 2026
  • disclosed26 Feb 2026

Introduced: 26 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-27896  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-178  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-436  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi flux-operator to version 0.43.0-r1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream flux-operator package and not the flux-operator package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi relevant fixed versions and status.

The Go MCP SDK used Go's standard encoding/json.Unmarshal for JSON-RPC and MCP protocol message parsing in versions prior to 1.3.1. Go's standard library performs case-insensitive matching of JSON keys to struct field tags — a field tagged json:"method" would also match "Method", "METHOD", etc. This violated the JSON-RPC 2.0 specification, which defines exact field names. A malicious MCP peer may have been able to send protocol messages with non-standard field casing that the SDK would silently accept. This had the potential for bypassing intermediary inspection and coss-implementation inconsistency. Go's standard JSON unmarshaling was replaced with a case-sensitive decoder in commit 7b8d81c. Users are advised to update to v1.3.1 to resolve this issue.