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CVE-2026-53937
Published:September 08, 2026
Updated:September 22, 2026
MCP Kotlin SDK is the Kotlin Multiplatform software development kit for the Model Context Protocol. In versions 0.7.0 through 0.12.0, "ReadBuffer.append" in "kotlin-sdk-core/src/commonMain/kotlin/io/modelcontextprotocol/kotlin/sdk/shared/ReadBuffer.kt" writes every chunk of bytes received from the stdio transport into a "kotlinx.io.Buffer" with no size cap. Frames are extracted from that buffer only when a "\n" (0x0a) byte is observed. A peer that streams bytes without ever sending a newline causes the internal buffer to grow indefinitely until the JVM (or the surrounding host process) is OOM-killed. The leak is amplified by "StdioServerTransport" and "StdioClientTransport", which both queue raw chunks through a "kotlinx.coroutines.channels.Channel<ByteArray>(Channel.UNLIMITED)" and then call "readBuffer.append(chunk)" without backpressure or size guard. This is a remote-pre-auth denial of service whenever an SDK stdio server's stdin is fed by an untrusted or attacker-controlled producer (for example: a host program that exec's the MCP server as a subprocess and pipes through bytes received from a network peer, or a sidecar wrapper that proxies bytes from an HTTP endpoint to the stdio transport). Version 0.13.0 fixes the issue.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/kotlin-sdk.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=0.1.0 <0.13.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.13.0
io.modelcontextprotocol:kotlin-sdk-client (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.7.0 <0.13.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.13.0
io.modelcontextprotocol:kotlin-sdk (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.6.0 <0.13.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.13.0
io.modelcontextprotocol:kotlin-sdk-server (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.7.0 <0.13.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.13.0
io.modelcontextprotocol:kotlin-sdk-core (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=0.7.0 <0.13.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 0.13.0
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
EPSS
Base Score:
0.19