# CVE-2026-48861: CRLF injection in HTTP/1 request line via unvalidated method in Mint

- Severity: CVSS 2.1 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.9.0
- Published: 2026-06-02 · Updated: 2026-06-02

## Affected

- mint: from 0.1.0, fixed in 1.9.0
- elixir-mint/mint: version range not reported

## Description

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in elixir-mint Mint allows HTTP Request Splitting and HTTP Request Smuggling. In lib/mint/http1/request.ex, the encode_request_line/2 function splices the caller-supplied method and target arguments directly into the HTTP/1 request line without any character validation: [method, ?\s, target, " HTTP/1.1\r\n"]. An application that forwards attacker-controlled input as the HTTP method or target to Mint.HTTP.request/5 is therefore exposed to request-line CRLF injection: the attacker can terminate the request line early, inject arbitrary headers, and smuggle an entirely separate pipelined HTTP request onto the same TCP connection. Mint 1.7.0 introduced validate_request_target/2, which rejects CRLF and other control characters in the target by default and closes the path/query vector unless the caller opts out via skip_target_validation: true. The method field remains unvalidated, so the method-based injection is exploitable under the default Mint configuration on all versions. This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.9.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mint, elixir-mint/mint, upgrade to a fixed version (1.9.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-2pg6-44cx-c49v
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48861.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48861
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/fad091454cbb7449b19edb8e1fee12ca7cf28c3a

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