Critical RCE in Serena MCP coding agent — update to 1.7.0

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:17:30 +0000

Platform/SRE — Skip
CI/CD — Act: Published GHSA-pp25-4cg4-qcr9 details a critical server-side template injection in serena-agent ≤1.6.1 that executes arbitrary code via a malicious .serena/project.yml smuggled in any cloned repo — a direct supply-chain threat to developer and CI environments; upgrade to serena-agent 1.7.0 now.
Leader — Plan: This is an early, documented example of a new risk class: MCP servers embedded in the SDL grant LLMs broad filesystem and shell access, making any compromise severe; evaluate whether your AI coding-agent adoption policies explicitly address this attack surface before broader org rollout.

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