CVE-2025-61492

CriticalPublic PoCRCE

Published: 07 January 2026

Published

07 January 2026

Modified

30 January 2026

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score 10.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0081 74.5th percentile

Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-61492 is a critical-severity Command Injection (CWE-77) vulnerability in Gongrzhe Terminal-Controller-Mcp. Its CVSS base score is 10.0 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 25.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as AI Agent Protocols and Integrations; in the Protocol-Specific Risks risk domain.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Threat & Defense at a Glance

What attackers do: exploitation maps to Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) and 1 other technique. What defenders deploy: see the NIST 800-53 controls recommended below.

Threat & Defense Details

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match

prevent

SI-10 mandates information input validation, directly preventing command injection by rejecting or sanitizing crafted inputs to the execute_command function.

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match

prevent

SI-2 requires timely flaw remediation, addressing the specific command injection vulnerability in terminal-controller-mcp 0.1.7 through patching or upgrades.

AC-6 Least Privilege partial match

prevent

AC-6 enforces least privilege, limiting the impact of arbitrary command execution by restricting privileges available to the exploited process.

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.

attack.mitre.org →

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution

Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries.

attack.mitre.org →

Why these techniques?

Remote unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in a network-accessible service directly enables T1190 (Exploit Public-Facing Application) for initial access and T1059 (Command and Scripting Interpreter) for arbitrary command execution.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

NVD Description

A command injection vulnerability in the execute_command function of terminal-controller-mcp 0.1.7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted input.

Deeper analysisAI

CVE-2025-61492 is a command injection vulnerability (CWE-77) in the execute_command function of terminal-controller-mcp version 0.1.7. Published on 2026-01-07, it allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted input. The vulnerability affects this specific version of the terminal-controller-mcp software and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H), marking it as critical.

Remote attackers require no privileges or user interaction to exploit the vulnerability over the network with low attack complexity. Successful exploitation grants attackers the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the affected system, resulting in high impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, along with a change in scope.

Mitigation details and further information are available in the project's GitHub repository at https://github.com/GongRzhe/terminal-controller-mcp, the related issue at https://github.com/GongRzhe/terminal-controller-mcp/issues/7, and https://github.com/cfdude/super-shell-mcp/issues/19.