CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-82729
6.3 MEDIUM
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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)
- 6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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-407
Description
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a remote HTTP server to exhaust CPU on the client host and cause a denial of service.
parse_hex_prefix/2 in lib/mint/http1/parse.ex folds each hex digit of a chunked response's chunk-size field into an arbitrary-precision accumulator with acc * 16 + digit and imposes no limit on the digit count. Because the accumulator grows without bound, the multiplication is not constant time and one pass over N digits costs O(N squared). handle_data/2 prepends conn.buffer and re-parses from the start on every socket message, so a server that dribbles the digits out in small packets makes the client pay that cost repeatedly. A run of roughly 512,000 hex digits costs over ten seconds of CPU in a single pass, measured on stock defaults. The parser reaches this state 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 1.9.3 before 1.10.0.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82729.html cna.erlef.org
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/bd2a4e7513594997c140cfef9fe0e968712fb588 github.com
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-7p8w-j234-7qc8 github.com
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82729 osv.dev
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-7p8w-j234-7qc8 github.com