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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-123635 EEF-CVE-2026-123635EUVD-2026-125453GHSA-7x9q-vvph-rjcr

Refused calls drain the HTTP/2 connection flow-control window in elixir-grpc grpc_server

Published Nov 13, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc_server allows a client to stall all later calls on a shared HTTP/2 connection via calls that the server refuses while their DATA frames are in flight.

The stream handler grpc_stream_h (grpc_server/src/grpc_stream_h.erl) requests flow from Cowboy only for request data that has arrived. When the server refuses a call early, for example because the body exceeds max_body_size or the method is not implemented, Cowboy drops the DATA frames still in flight for that stream. Their bytes are not returned to the connection flow-control window. After enough refused calls the window is empty. No call on that connection can then send a request body, and each call waits until its deadline. Other connections are not affected.

This issue affects grpc_server: from 1.0.0 before 1.1.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
elixir-grpc grpc_server 1.0.0 <1.1.0 —
elixir-grpc grpc_server 0332faae5f5e132314794dbfdae5edecbccea292 <61a71948e6e7b95efb27d48e7084c764503cc802 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex grpc_server >= 1.0.0, < 1.1.0 1.1.0 EEF-CVE-2026-123635

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