CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-32873

7.5 HIGH Published 2026-03-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-03-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-825, CWE-835

Description

ewe is a Gleam web server. Versions 0.8.0 through 3.0.4 contain a bug in the handle_trailers function where rejected trailer headers (forbidden or undeclared) cause an infinite loop. When handle_trailers encounters such a trailer, three code paths (lines 520, 523, 526) recurse with the original buffer (rest) instead of advancing past the rejected header (Buffer(header_rest, 0)), causing decoder.decode_packet to re-parse the same header on every iteration. The resulting loop has no timeout or escape — the BEAM process permanently wedges at 100% CPU. Any application that calls ewe.read_body on chunked requests is affected, and this is exploitable by any unauthenticated remote client before control returns to application code, making an application-level workaround impossible. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.5.

Affected configurations

• vshakitskiy ewe (>= 0.8.0 < 3.0.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-825 Expired Pointer Dereference weakness
  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References