{"id":80602,"date":"2026-06-16T02:46:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-48854-unbounded-request-body-accumulation-causes-memory-exhaustion-in-elixir-grpc-grpc\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:46:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T23:16:45","slug":"cve-2026-48854-unbounded-request-body-accumulation-causes-memory-exhaustion-in-elixir-grpc-grpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-48854-unbounded-request-body-accumulation-causes-memory-exhaustion-in-elixir-grpc-grpc\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-48854 &#8211; Unbounded request body accumulation causes memory exhaustion in elixir-grpc\/grpc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-48854<\/p>\n<p>  Published : June 15, 2026, 11:16 p.m. | 25\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust the BEAM&#8217;s memory and crash the server by streaming a large or slow-trickle unary request body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy.Handler&#8217;:read_full_body\/3 (lib\/grpc\/server\/adapters\/cowboy\/handler.ex) accumulates every received chunk into a single growing binary with no size cap. Additionally, when the client omits the grpc-timeout header, the per-chunk read timeout resolves to :infinity, allowing a slow-trickle client to keep the connection alive indefinitely while memory grows. A single connection is sufficient to exhaust server memory and crash the node.<\/p>\n<p>This issue affects grpc from 0.3.1 before 1.0.0.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.7 | 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-2026-48854 Published : June 15, 2026, 11:16 p.m. | 25\u00a0minutes ago Description :Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust the BEAM&#8217;s memory and crash the server by streaming a large or slow-trickle unary request body. &#8216;Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy.Handler&#8217;:read_full_body\/3 (lib\/grpc\/server\/adapters\/cowboy\/handler.ex) accumulates every received chunk into a single &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-80602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80602","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=80602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}