# CVE-2026-58226: Unauthenticated denial-of-service via unbounded HPACK integer decoding in hpax

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.0.4
- Published: 2026-07-06 · Updated: 2026-07-06

## Affected

- hpax: from 0.1.1, fixed in 1.0.4
- elixir-mint/hpax: version range not reported

## Description

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in elixir-mint hpax allows unauthenticated denial-of-service via unbounded HPACK integer decoding. hpax decodes HPACK variable-length integers with no upper bound on the decoded value or the number of continuation octets. 'Elixir.HPAX.Types':decode_remaining_integer/3 accumulates the integer as int + (value <<< m), shifting by 7 more bits for each continuation octet and stopping only on a terminating octet or truncated input, never because the integer grew too large. Because BEAM integers are arbitrary precision, a run of N continuation octets builds an O(N)-bit bignum and re-adds into an ever-larger bignum on each step, so the total decoding cost is superlinear (about O(N^2)). An unauthenticated attacker who can send an HTTP/2 header block to a server using this decoder (reached through the 'Elixir.HPAX':decode/2 entry point) can supply a small header block that forces a large, attacker-controlled amount of CPU (and transient memory), a denial-of-service amplification. This issue affects hpax from 0.1.1 before 1.0.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on hpax, elixir-mint/hpax, upgrade to a fixed version (1.0.4) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/elixir-mint/hpax/security/advisories/GHSA-jj2p-32j7-whj2
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-58226.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-58226
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/hpax/commit/1ba4bb2dc91e80089cf89c73970ac3ded76f17eb

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