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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-82672 EEF-CVE-2026-82672EUVD-2026-83608GHSA-rj5m-69wp-cxq9

Unvalidated chunk-size line tail in Mint HTTP/1 client enables response smuggling against strict intermediaries on pooled connections

Published Sep 19, 2026 · Updated Sep 21, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a malicious HTTP/1 server to desynchronize a strict intermediary and the Mint client on a pooled connection, enabling response-queue poisoning against subsequent requests that share the connection.

Mint.HTTP1.Parse.chunk_size/1 in lib/mint/http1/parse.ex stops at the first non-hexadecimal byte of a chunked response's chunk-size line and returns the remainder unexamined. Mint.HTTP1.decode_body/5 in lib/mint/http1.ex then discards every byte up to the CRLF with Parse.ignore_until_crlf/1, so the accepted grammar is a run of hex digits followed by arbitrary bytes, where RFC 9112 permits only a ;-introduced chunk extension. Lines such as 5ZZZZZ and 5 9 are accepted as chunk size 5, and 0ZZZZ is accepted as the terminating chunk that ends the message body. An RFC-strict intermediary rejects such a line while Mint accepts it, so the two disagree on chunk boundaries and on where the response ends.

This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.10.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
elixir-mint mint 0.1.0 – < 1.10.1 1.10.1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex mint >= 0.1.0, < 1.10.1 1.10.1 EEF-CVE-2026-82672

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