Vulnerability 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 Weaknesses (CWE)
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82728.html
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/19be5558b6a317e271c78666498dd78b151e4
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-g83f-2j6r-q6m4
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82728
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-g83f-2j6r-q6m4
FAQ
What is CVE-2026-82728?
CVE-2026-82728 is a documented vulnerability. 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 respo...
How severe is CVE-2026-82728?
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Is there a patch for CVE-2026-82728?
Check the references section above for vendor advisories and patch information. Review vendor security bulletins for remediation guidance.