CVE-2026-63119
Received
Received - Intake
Memory Exhaustion in MCP Ruby SDK via Unbounded IO Reads
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-63119, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-07-29
Last updated on: 2026-07-29
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
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.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| mcp | ruby_sdk | 0.23.0 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-770 | The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated. |
| CWE-400 | The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource. |
