CVE-2026-92103
Mint HTTP/2 client buffers oversized frames up to 16 MiB before enforcing max_frame_size
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- EEF
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a malicious HTTP/2 server to make the client hold up to about 16 MiB per connection in frames it should reject, consuming client memory. Mint.HTTP2.Frame.decode_next/2 in lib/mint/http2/frame.ex compares a frame with the client's max_frame_size (16,384 bytes by default) only once the whole declared payload has arrived. Until then it returns :more, and Mint.HTTP2 keeps every received byte in the connection buffer. A server can declare a frame length of up to 16,777,215 bytes and withhold the last byte, keeping roughly 1,024 times the advertised limit buffered for as long as the connection stays open. The server has to send every byte the client buffers, so there is no amplification, and the buffer stops at the 24-bit frame length limit. This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.10.2.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| EEFCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.33% · top 74% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 0.1.0 – < 1.10.2
- affected 596ca4304504be68939c4929e0831557097962b8 – < *
What to do
Workaround: Connect to untrusted origins over HTTP/1 only, with protocols: [:http1] in Mint.HTTP.connect/4, which never runs the HTTP/2 frame decoder. Finch and Req pools use HTTP/1 only unless :http2 is added to their protocols option.
References (6)
- GitHub Advisory (opens in a new tab)relatedvendor-advisory
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-92103 (opens in a new tab)related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-92103 (opens in a new tab)related
- Introducing commit 596ca43 in elixir-mint/mint (opens in a new tab)related
- Fix commit 20252ca in elixir-mint/mint (opens in a new tab)patch
- Fix commit 44d7ce4 in elixir-mint/mint (opens in a new tab)patch
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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