CVE-2026-63119

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

Published Jul 29, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 6.2 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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 IO#gets without a byte limit, allowing a peer that sends data without a newline to exhaust process memory. This issue is fixed in version 0.23.0.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-7683-3w9x-ch42 MCP Ruby SDK: Unbounded line buffer in stdio transports leads to memory exhaustion (DoS)
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Modelcontextprotocol
Modelcontextprotocol ruby-sdk
Vendors & Products Modelcontextprotocol
Modelcontextprotocol ruby-sdk
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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 IO#gets without a byte limit, allowing a peer that sends data without a newline to exhaust process memory. This issue is fixed in version 0.23.0.
Title MCP Ruby SDK: Unbounded line buffer in stdio transports leads to memory exhaustion (DoS)
Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Jul 29, 2026, 7:28 PM
Reserved
Jul 15, 2026, 4:54 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
Jul 29, 2026, 8:17 PM
Modified
Oct 24, 2026, 1:10 PM