CVE ID :CVE-2026-59246<\/p>\n
Published : July 14, 2026, 9:16 a.m. | 14\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n
Description :Allocation of resources without limits vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a remote HTTP\/2 server to exhaust memory on the client host and cause a denial of service.<\/p>\n
The Mint.HTTP2.handle_continuation\/3 function in lib\/mint\/http2.ex accumulates the header-block fragment carried by each HTTP\/2 CONTINUATION frame into a growing conn.headers_being_processed nesting, one level deeper per frame, and only releases it when a frame with the END_HEADERS flag arrives. The only guard on this accumulator is Mint.HTTP2.assert_header_block_within_max_size\/2, which sums the byte size of the fragments received so far. Because a CONTINUATION frame is permitted by the protocol to carry a zero-length payload, an unbounded chain of zero-length CONTINUATION frames adds no bytes to the running total, never trips the size cap, and never emits END_HEADERS, yet each frame still nests the accumulator one level deeper.<\/p>\n
A malicious HTTP\/2 server (reachable directly, via an attacker-controlled redirect, via SSRF, or via a man-in-the-middle) can open a stream by sending a HEADERS frame without END_HEADERS and then stream zero-length CONTINUATION frames indefinitely. Client memory grows one cons cell per frame received; sustained bandwidth from the peer drives the BEAM node running the Mint client to memory exhaustion and eventual out-of-memory termination.<\/p>\n
This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.9.2.<\/p>\n
Severity: 6.3 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n
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