CVE-2025-53098 Roo Code Vulnerable to Potential Remote Code Execution via Model Context Protocol

High 8.1 Published 27 Jun 2025 Updated 3 Jul 2025

Attackers can achieve remote code execution by tricking the AI agent into writing malicious commands to its configuration file if auto-approval is enabled.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2025-53098?

CVE-2025-53098 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in RooCodeInc Roo-Code, published on 27 Jun 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Roo Code is an AI-powered autonomous coding agent. The project-specific MCP configuration for the Roo Code agent is stored in the `.roo/mcp.json` file within the VS Code workspace. Because the MCP configuration format allows for execution of arbitrary commands, prior to version 3.20.3, it would have been possible for an attacker with access to craft a prompt to ask the agent to write a malicious command to the MCP configuration file. If the user had opted-in to auto-approving file writes within the project, this would have led to arbitrary command execution. This issue is of moderate severity, since it requires the attacker to already be able to submit prompts to the agent (for instance through a prompt injection attack), for the user to have MCP enabled (on by default), and for the user to have enabled auto-approved file writes (off by default). Version 3.20.3 fixes the issue by adding an additional layer of opt-in configuration for auto-approving writing to Roo's configuration files, including all files within the `.roo/` folder.

Weakness: CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-53098?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Roocode Roo Code.

How do I fix CVE-2025-53098?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-53098 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2025-53098 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-53098 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-5x8h-m52g-5v54.