Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust the BEAM's memory and crash the server by streaming a large or slow-trickle unary request body.
'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy.Handler':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.
This issue affects grpc: from 0.3.0-alpha.2 before 1.0.0.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| elixir-grpc | grpc | 0.3.0-alpha.2 – < 1.0.0 | 1.0.0 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | grpc | >= 0.3.0-alpha.2, < 1.0.0 | 1.0.0 | EEF-CVE-2026-48854 |
| Hex | grpc | >= 0.3.1, < 1.0.0 | 1.0.0 | GHSA-q8gf-9rvj-gmgj |
References
- https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/security/advisories/GHSA-q8gf-9rvj-gmgj vendor-advisory related
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-48854 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-48854 related
- Introducing commit d1abe70 in elixir-grpc/grpc related
- Fix commit 49e18c3 in elixir-grpc/grpc patch