CVE-2026-8468 (GCVE-0-2026-8468)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-14 10:29 – Updated: 2026-05-15 04:33
VLAI
Title
Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in plug
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in plug_project plug allows denial of service via unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing. 'Elixir.Plug.Conn':read_part_headers/2 in lib/plug/conn.ex does not obey its :length parameter. There is no upper bound on the size of the accumulated buffer. By contrast, the sibling function read_part_body has an explicit byte_size(acc) > length guard that stops accumulation once a limit is reached. No such guard exists in read_part_headers. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory by sending a crafted multipart/form-data request, causing a denial of service. This issue affects plug from 1.4.0 before 1.15.4, 1.16.3, 1.17.1, 1.18.2, and 1.19.2.
Severity
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
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
EEF
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elixir-plug plug Affected: 1.4.0 , < 1.15.4 (semver)
Affected: 1.16.0 , < 1.16.3 (semver)
Affected: 1.17.0 , < 1.17.1 (semver)
Affected: 1.18.0 , < 1.18.2 (semver)
Affected: 1.19.0 , < 1.19.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:plug_project:plug:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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elixir-plug plug Affected: c52b2f32c90bccd718202bafccb5f95594e30183 , < * (git)
    cpe:2.3:a:plug_project:plug:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
José Valim José Valim Jonatan Männchen
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