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Medium · 6.6 CVE-2026-14539 EUVD-2026-51373GHSA-623p-8r6m-hwc6

Denial of Service via Unrestricted Payload Buffering in MCP Toolbox

Published Jul 31, 2026 · Updated Jul 31, 2026 · Assigned by Google

Description

An allocation of resources without limits vulnerability in the HTTP handler component of Google mcp-toolbox versions up to and including 1.4.0 allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS). The /mcp endpoint handler reads incoming payloads directly into system memory using an unrestricted buffer loop (io.ReadAll) without applying defensive constraints such as http.MaxBytesReader or pre-read Content-Length enforcement. By submitting a single, massive HTTP request body, an attacker can linearly consume available host memory until the runtime process is terminated by an Out-Of-Memory (OOM) error.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Google mcp-toolbox 0.0.0 – ≤ 1.4.0 —

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