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HIGH8.2

EEF-CVE-2026-82728

Unbounded HTTP/1 status-line and chunk-extension buffering in Mint causes memory-exhaustion DoS

Quick fix

EEF-CVE-2026-82728 — mint: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

mix deps.update mint

Details

## Summary

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.

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Affected packages

Hex/mint
Introduced in: 0.1.0Fixed in: 1.10.0
Fixmix deps.update mint

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