CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-82728
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-09-08
- Assigner
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- CVSS 4.0 (6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db)
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a remote HTTP server to exhaust memory on the client host and cause a denial of service.
Two HTTP/1 response-parser states accumulate server data without any cap. In lib/mint/http1.ex, decode_status_line/4 stores the unconsumed data in conn.buffer when the status line is incomplete, and decode_body/5 does the same for an unterminated chunk-extension line. Both wait for a CRLF the server never has to send, and conn.buffer is prepended to every subsequent socket message. The :max_header_list_size budget is wired only into decode_headers/5 and decode_trailer_headers/4, so neither of these states is covered by it. A malicious server, or one reached through an attacker-controlled redirect or a fetched URL, streams bytes indefinitely until the BEAM node is killed by the operating system out-of-memory handler. The chunk-extension variant is reached after a valid status line and a complete, valid header section, so an intermediary inspecting only headers sees an ordinary 200 response.
This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.10.0.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82728.html cna.erlef.org
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/19be5558b6a317e271c78666498dd78b151e490a github.com
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-g83f-2j6r-q6m4 github.com
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82728 osv.dev
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-g83f-2j6r-q6m4 github.com