{"id":78426,"date":"2026-05-13T21:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8466-unbounded-buffer-accumulation-in-multipart-header-parsing-causes-denial-of-service-in-cowboy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T21:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:26:21","slug":"cve-2026-8466-unbounded-buffer-accumulation-in-multipart-header-parsing-causes-denial-of-service-in-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8466-unbounded-buffer-accumulation-in-multipart-header-parsing-causes-denial-of-service-in-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-8466 &#8211; Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8466<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 13, 2026, 6:26 p.m. | 31\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ninenines cowboy allows denial of service via unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing.<\/p>\n<p>cowboy_req:read_part\/3 in src\/cowboy_req.erl accumulates incoming request bytes into a Buffer binary with no upper-bound check. When cow_multipart:parse_headers\/2 returns more or {more, Buffer2}, the function reads up to Length bytes (default 64 KB) from the request body and recurses with the enlarged buffer. There is no equivalent of the byte_size(Acc) &gt; Length guard present in the sibling function read_part_body\/4. An unauthenticated attacker can send a multipart\/form-data request whose body never yields a complete header section \u2014 for example, a body that never contains the advertised boundary delimiter, or one whose header lines never contain rnrn \u2014 and force the server process to accumulate memory linearly with the bytes the protocol layer is willing to deliver. A handful of concurrent such uploads is sufficient to exhaust BEAM memory.<\/p>\n<p>This issue affects cowboy from 2.0.0 before 2.15.0.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.2 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8466 Published : May 13, 2026, 6:26 p.m. | 31\u00a0minutes ago Description :Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ninenines cowboy allows denial of service via unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing. cowboy_req:read_part\/3 in src\/cowboy_req.erl accumulates incoming request bytes into a Buffer binary with no upper-bound check. When cow_multipart:parse_headers\/2 returns &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}