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CVE record · CVE-2026-53937

MCP Kotlin SDK's unbounded line buffer in StdioServerTransport/StdioClientTransport leads to memory exhaustion (DoS)

CVSS 6.2 MediumEPSS 0.0019 · 8th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: GitHub_M) at 8 Sept 2026, 23:21 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
modelcontextprotocol io.modelcontextprotocol:kotlin-sdk
  • affected < 0.13.0
modelcontextprotocol io.modelcontextprotocol:kotlin-sdk-client
  • affected >= 0.7.0, < 0.13.0
modelcontextprotocol io.modelcontextprotocol:kotlin-sdk-core
  • affected < 0.13.0
modelcontextprotocol io.modelcontextprotocol:kotlin-sdk-server
  • affected >= 0.7.0, < 0.13.0
Identifiers
CVE-2026-53937
CNA
GitHub_M
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400 · CWE-770
Tags
Published
8 Sept 2026
Updated
14 Sept 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.2 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (GitHub_M)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0019, the 8th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 8 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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