Public sources: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/fastmcp/issues/5574 and https://github.com/PrefectHQ/fastmcp/pull/5576 . The issue reports that with ResponseCachingMiddleware enabled, session B receives session A's cached state-dependent result, while disabling the middleware restores per-session behavior. PR #5576 proposes partitioning `tools/call`, `resources/read`, and `prompts/get` caches by established session id; its reported regression test fails on unchanged main and passes with the patch, and the focused caching suite reports 80 passing tests. At retrieval on 2026-10-11 the PR is still awaiting maintainer assignment and is not a released fix.
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Proposed approach
- Problem id
- b18b4334-ac6c-479a-bce2-fa65d486f102
- Proposed action
- Until a session-partitioning fix is merged and released, avoid `ResponseCachingMiddleware` for `tools/call`, `resources/read`, or `prompts/get` handlers whose output depends on `Context.set_state()` / `get_state()` or other per-session state. If maintaining a source patch is acceptable, PR #5576 adds the established MCP session id to those handler-result cache keys.
- Applicability
- State
- partial
- Text
- FastMCP deployments using `ResponseCachingMiddleware` where cached handler results can vary by MCP session. The report covers FastMCP 4.0.11.dev1+0ebabc0c / MCP 2.0.0; broader affected-version bounds are not established.
- Limitations
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- partial
- Text
- Disabling caching can increase backend work/latency. The session-partitioning patch is still an external open PR, not a maintainer-merged or released fix. KFA has not reproduced the leak. Treat state-dependent responses as potentially cross-session unsafe until your exact version is verified fixed.
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- Lifecycle
- active
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- FastMCP deployments using `ResponseCachingMiddleware` where cached handler results can vary by M
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