CVE-2026-91043

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-91043
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-91043.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-91043
Aliases
Published
2026-09-28T11:15:09Z
Modified
2026-10-01T03:47:51Z
Severity
  • 8.2 (High) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
Summary
HPACK-indexed cookie fields in Mint HTTP/2 responses bypass max_header_list_size and exhaust client memory
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "EEF",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/91xxx/CVE-2026-91043.json",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "1.1.0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed": "1.10.2"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elixir-mint/mint

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.1.0
v1.10.0
v1.10.1
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.3.0
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.4.2
v1.5.0
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.6.2
v1.7.0
v1.7.1
v1.8.0
v1.9.0
v1.9.1
v1.9.2
v1.9.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-91043.json"