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High · 8.2 CVE-2026-8468 EEF-CVE-2026-8468EUVD-2026-30266GHSA-468c-vq7p-gh64

Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in plug

Published May 14, 2026 · Updated May 27, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in plug_project plug allows denial of service via unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing.

'Elixir.Plug.Conn':read_part_headers/2 in lib/plug/conn.ex does not obey its :length parameter. There is no upper bound on the size of the accumulated buffer. By contrast, the sibling function read_part_body has an explicit byte_size(acc) > length guard that stops accumulation once a limit is reached. No such guard exists in read_part_headers. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory by sending a crafted multipart/form-data request, causing a denial of service.

This issue affects plug from 1.4.0 before 1.15.4, 1.16.3, 1.17.1, 1.18.2, and 1.19.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
elixir-plug plug 1.4.0 – < 1.15.4, 1.16.0 – < 1.16.3, 1.17.0 – < 1.17.1, 1.18.0 – < 1.18.2, 1.19.0 – < 1.19.2 1.15.4

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex plug >= 1.4.0, < 1.15.4 · >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.3 · >= 1.17.0, < 1.17.1 · >= 1.18.0, < 1.18.2 · >= 1.19.0, < 1.19.2 1.15.4, 1.16.3, 1.17.1, 1.18.2, 1.19.2 EEF-CVE-2026-8468
Hex plug >= 1.4.0, < 1.15.4 1.15.4 GHSA-468c-vq7p-gh64
Hex plug >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.3 1.16.3 GHSA-468c-vq7p-gh64
Hex plug >= 1.17.0, < 1.17.1 1.17.1 GHSA-468c-vq7p-gh64
Hex plug >= 1.18.0, < 1.18.2 1.18.2 GHSA-468c-vq7p-gh64
Hex plug >= 1.19.0, < 1.19.2 1.19.2 GHSA-468c-vq7p-gh64

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