CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-92103

MediumCVSS 6.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.30%

21th percentile - higher than 21% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the mint library (Elixir) allows a malicious HTTP/2 server to make the client buffer up to about 16 MiB per connection in frames it should reject, consuming client memory. This occurs because the frame is compared with the maximum size only after the entire declared payload has arrived, leading to excessive memory usage.

Risk Assessment

Organizations using the vulnerable version of mint may experience client memory exhaustion, potentially leading to crashes or denial of service. An attacker can maintain multiple connections to amplify the impact on resources.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade the mint library to version 1.10.2 or later, which includes a fix to limit frame buffering.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a malicious HTTP/2 server to make the client hold up to about 16 MiB per connection in frames it should reject, consuming client memory. Mint.HTTP2.Frame.decode_next/2 in lib/mint/http2/frame.ex compares a frame with the client's max_frame_size (16,384 bytes by default) only once the whole declared payload has arrived. Until then it returns :more, and Mint.HTTP2 keeps every received byte in the connection buffer. A server can declare a frame length of up to 16,777,215 bytes and withhold the last byte, keeping roughly 1,024 times the advertised limit buffered for as long as the connection stays open. The server has to send every byte the client buffers, so there is no amplification, and the buffer stops at the 24-bit frame length limit. This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.10.2.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS