CVE-2026-63119 MCP Ruby SDK: Unbounded line buffer in stdio transports leads to memory exhaustion (DoS)

MCP Ruby SDK is the official Ruby SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients. Prior to 0.23.0, MCP::Server::Transports::StdioTransport and MCP::Client::Stdio in the mcp gem use IOgets without a byte limit, allowing a peer that sends data without a newline to exhaust process memory. This...

CVE-2026-63119

The CVE affects the MCP Ruby SDK (mcp gem), specifically MCP::Server::Transports::StdioTransport and MCP::Client::Stdio. The vulnerability arises from using IO#gets without a byte limit, allowing an attacker to send data without a newline and trigger unbounded line buffering, causing memory exhau...

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Overview mcp is a The official Ruby SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the stdio transports lib/mcp/server/transports/stdiotransport.rb and lib/mcp/client/stdio.rb, which ca...