CVE-2026-82729

Quadratic chunk-size parsing in Mint.HTTP1.Parse allows CPU-exhaustion DoS

MEDIUM
6.3
CVSS Score
Published: September 4, 2026 at 02:31 PM UTC
Updated: September 8, 2026 at 02:31 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorMint

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Severity
MEDIUM6.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
PoC

Description

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a remote HTTP server to exhaust CPU on the client host and cause a denial of service. parse_hex_prefix/2 in lib/mint/http1/parse.ex folds each hex digit of a chunked response's chunk-size field into an arbitrary-precision accumulator with acc * 16 + digit and imposes no limit on the digit count. Because the accumulator grows without bound, the multiplication is not constant time and one pass over N digits costs O(N squared). handle_data/2 prepends conn.buffer and re-parses from the start on every socket message, so a server that dribbles the digits out in small packets makes the client pay that cost repeatedly. A run of roughly 512,000 hex digits costs over ten seconds of CPU in a single pass, measured on stock defaults. The parser reaches this state after a valid status line and a complete, valid header section, so an intermediary inspecting only headers sees an ordinary 200 response. This issue affects mint: from 1.9.3 before 1.10.0.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

1.9.3 ≤ v < 1.10.01.9.3fc7d16538db7e40b56ed489f08683225cb0197fa
Vendor states this is fixed in bd2a4e7513594997c140cfef9fe0e968712fb588 (fixed)
Affected range stops below 1.10.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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CVSS

6.3MEDIUMEEF
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-407

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