diff --git a/deploy/docker/mcp_bridge.py b/deploy/docker/mcp_bridge.py
index 653bc368b..fedd2e29b 100644
--- a/deploy/docker/mcp_bridge.py
+++ b/deploy/docker/mcp_bridge.py
@@ -249,7 +249,13 @@ async def __call__(self, scope, receive, send):
             async with sse.connect_sse(scope, receive, send) as (read_stream, write_stream):
                 await mcp.run(read_stream, write_stream, init_opts)
 
-    app.routes.append(Route(f"{base}/sse", endpoint=_MCPSseApp()))
+    # `methods` must be explicit: for a class-based ASGI endpoint, Starlette's
+    # Route otherwise leaves `self.methods = None`, which matches *any* HTTP
+    # method. A client probing this URL with POST (e.g. an MCP client trying
+    # the Streamable HTTP transport before falling back to SSE) would then be
+    # routed into the SSE handshake instead of getting a fast 405, and hang
+    # until its own client-side timeout.
+    app.routes.append(Route(f"{base}/sse", endpoint=_MCPSseApp(), methods=["GET"]))
     app.routes.append(Mount(f"{base}/messages", app=sse.handle_post_message))
 
     # ── schema endpoint ───────────────────────────────────────
diff --git a/deploy/docker/tests/test_security_mcp_sse_methods.py b/deploy/docker/tests/test_security_mcp_sse_methods.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..220367beb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deploy/docker/tests/test_security_mcp_sse_methods.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+"""
+Regression test for issue #2120: a POST to the MCP SSE endpoint must be
+rejected fast (405), not silently upgraded into an SSE connection.
+
+`/mcp/sse` is mounted as a raw ASGI Route with a class-based endpoint
+(`_MCPSseApp`). Starlette only defaults `methods` to `["GET"]` for
+function/method endpoints; a class-based endpoint with no explicit
+`methods=` matches *every* HTTP verb. Clients that probe an MCP endpoint
+with a POST (e.g. attempting the Streamable HTTP transport before falling
+back to legacy SSE) were routed straight into the SSE handshake instead of
+getting a 405, and the request just hung until the client's own timeout —
+matching the "connect via MCP from LM Studio" timeout report.
+
+The client call runs in a daemon thread with a hard wall-clock bound: on
+the buggy code the request never returns, so awaiting it inline (or via a
+non-daemon executor, whose shutdown() joins the thread) would hang the test
+suite forever instead of failing.
+"""
+
+import threading
+
+import pytest
+
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.cve
+
+from auth import create_access_token
+
+
+def test_post_to_mcp_sse_is_rejected_fast(stock_client):
+    # Authenticate past the AuthGateMiddleware gate so the request actually
+    # reaches routing — an unauthenticated POST would get a fast 401 from the
+    # gate regardless of the route's `methods`, which would not exercise the
+    # bug this test guards against.
+    token = create_access_token({"sub": "user@x.com"}, scope="data")
+
+    result = {}
+
+    def _post():
+        result["response"] = stock_client.post(
+            "/mcp/sse",
+            json={"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "initialize", "params": {}},
+            headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"},
+        )
+
+    thread = threading.Thread(target=_post, daemon=True)
+    thread.start()
+    thread.join(timeout=5)
+
+    if thread.is_alive():
+        pytest.fail(
+            "POST /mcp/sse did not return within 5s — it was routed into "
+            "the SSE handshake instead of being rejected with 405, so the "
+            "connection hangs until the client's own timeout."
+        )
+
+    response = result["response"]
+    assert response.status_code == 405, (
+        f"POST /mcp/sse returned {response.status_code}; expected 405 "
+        "(only GET should reach the SSE handshake)."
+    )