CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-91043
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2026-09-28
- Last modified
- 2026-09-29
- 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 malicious HTTP/2 server to exhaust memory on the client host and cause a denial of service.
Mint.HTTP2 enforces the client's max_header_list_size setting only on the compressed size of an inbound header block, while RFC 9113 section 6.5.2 defines the limit on the decoded header list. An HPACK indexed field costs one byte on the wire and decodes to a dynamic table entry of up to 4 KB, and join_cookie_headers/1 in lib/mint/http2.ex copies every cookie value of a response into one new binary. A header block under the default 256 KB wire limit therefore makes the client allocate about 1 GB for a single response, and several such responses in one delivery exhaust the memory of the process that owns the connection or of the whole VM.
This issue affects mint: from 1.1.0 before 1.10.2.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-91043.html cna.erlef.org
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/65a0d61c9eab6b0dedac809de7212515bf506250 github.com
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/8e0e04680476f90f9f68db4dfeabcbe66dabfc4d github.com
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/c7895cb022196c77ec35570c8e873a84393ff4b8 github.com
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-9x8p-qrf4-jq7g github.com
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-91043 osv.dev