python-sdk: Model Context Protocol Python SDK HTTP and OAuth endpoints allow memory exhaustion through unbounded request bodies
What fixes it
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Description
The Model Context Protocol Python SDK is the official Python SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients. In mcp versions before 1.29.1 and from 2.0.0a1 through 2.0.1, the Streamable HTTP session manager, SSE message endpoint, and OAuth authorization-server routes buffer complete HTTP request bodies without enforcing a maximum size. An unauthenticated remote client able to reach an affected endpoint can send a large declared or streamed request body that consumes multiple times the body size in process memory and can repeatedly exhaust memory or terminate the server. Stdio-only servers and deployments with an effective upstream request-size limit are not affected, and applications that use StreamableHTTPServerTransport directly remain responsible for enforcing their own limit. The standard SDK server applications and session managers are fixed in versions 1.29.1 and 2.1.0.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 4
- python-sdkaffected: < 1.29.1CVE List
- python-sdkaffected: >= 2.0.0a1, < 2.1.0CVE List
- mcp, pip< 1.29.1GitHub
- mcp, pip>= 2.0.0, < 2.1.0GitHub
References 7
- github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/commit/03aaebd3aadb2567878dd811cb1f141454e8a080Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/commit/4dc224fab201bdef2fd5a065976b7ca31420187cFixvia CVE List
- github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/commit/57394b0548d1e2dc2dce8d67d84985769df3b8bbFixvia CVE List
- github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/commit/5f0b6af9f2b0aad3be3ba5cbfe80a9e4ea32e189Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/releases/tag/v1.29.1Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/releases/tag/v2.1.0Fixvia CVE List
- github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/security/advisories/GHSA-fmmv-w9g8-j3gcAdvisoryvia CVE List