CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-91043

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.38%

30th percentile - higher than 30% of all known CVEs

Summary

The mint library (Elixir) has a resource allocation vulnerability allowing a malicious HTTP/2 server to exhaust client memory and cause denial of service. Affected versions are from 1.1.0 before 1.10.2.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exhaust memory of the process or the whole VM, leading to unavailability of applications using the mint library.

Recommendation

Upgrade the mint library to version 1.10.2 or later, which contains the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS