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fix: CSRF double-submit cookie check in consent flow#3519

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The consent binding cookie fix in #3201 (GHSA-rww4-4w9c-7733) prevented confused deputy attacks by requiring the browser that approved consent to present a signed cookie on the IdP callback. However, an attacker could bypass this by CSRFing the consent approval itself — they start their own OAuth flow, extract the tx_id and csrf_token from their consent page, then trick the victim's browser into POSTing those values to the consent endpoint. The server-side CSRF check passed (the token matched the transaction store), the consent binding cookie got set on the victim's browser, and the original attack was viable again.

The fix adds a double-submit check: the CSRF token submitted in the form must also be present in the MCP_CONSENT_STATE cookie, which is set when the consent page is rendered. A cross-origin POST from the attacker's site won't include the victim's cookies (the cookie is SameSite=Lax, HttpOnly), so the check fails.

@jlowin jlowin added the bug Something isn't working. Reports of errors, unexpected behavior, or broken functionality. label Mar 15, 2026
@marvin-context-protocol marvin-context-protocol Bot added security Security fixes: input validation, SSRF/LFI prevention, auth hardening, injection defenses. auth Related to authentication (Bearer, JWT, OAuth, WorkOS) for client or server. high-priority labels Mar 15, 2026
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cookie_csrf_tokens = self._decode_list_cookie(request, "MCP_CONSENT_STATE")
if csrf_token not in cookie_csrf_tokens:
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P2 Badge Preserve CSRF state across concurrent consent transactions

This new check rejects valid approvals when a user has more than one consent flow open in the same browser: _submit_consent now requires the posted token to exist in MCP_CONSENT_STATE, but _show_consent_page rewrites that cookie with only the latest token each time a consent page is rendered. If tab A is opened, then tab B is opened, submitting tab A will now return 403 even though its transaction and CSRF token are still valid.

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"txn_id": txn_id,
"csrf_token": csrf_token,
},
cookies={}, # No cookies — simulates cross-origin submission
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P2 Badge Simulate missing CSRF cookie with a clean client session

Using cookies={} here does not remove cookies already stored in Starlette/httpx TestClient; cookies set by the preceding consent-page GET are still sent on this POST. As a result, this test does not actually exercise the “no CSRF cookie” path it claims to cover, so it can miss regressions in the double-submit protection logic (or fail for the wrong reason).

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cookie_csrf_tokens = self._decode_list_cookie(request, "MCP_CONSENT_STATE")
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P1 Badge Reject non-__Host consent-state cookie on HTTPS

In ConsentMixin._submit_consent, the new double-submit gate calls _decode_list_cookie(request, "MCP_CONSENT_STATE"), but that decoder still accepts the weaker __MCP_CONSENT_STATE fallback name even when self._is_https is true (_decode_list_cookie reads request.cookies.get(secure_name) or request.cookies.get(f"__{base_name}")). On HTTPS deployments, a sibling-subdomain attacker can replay a signed consent-state cookie value from their own flow via a domain-scoped __MCP_CONSENT_STATE cookie, then POST their txn_id/csrf_token and pass this new check, which re-opens the consent-CSRF path this patch is meant to close.

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