# CVE-2026-58229: Unbounded HTTP/1 response-header and chunked-trailer accumulation in Mint causes memory-exhaustion DoS

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.9.2
- Published: 2026-07-14 · Updated: 2026-07-14

## Affected

- mint: from 0.1.0, fixed in 1.9.2
- elixir-mint/mint: version range not reported

## Description

Allocation of resources without limits vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a remote HTTP server to exhaust memory on the client host and cause a denial of service. The Mint.HTTP1.decode_headers/5 and Mint.HTTP1.decode_trailer_headers/4 functions in lib/mint/http1.ex accumulate every parsed response header and chunked-trailer field into a per-request list that persists across incoming TCP segments as request.headers_buffer, and only clear it when the terminating blank line is received. The section has no cap on the number of headers or on total bytes, and the underlying :erlang.decode_packet(:httph_bin, binary, []) parser is invoked with an empty option list so its per-line and per-packet size limits also default to unlimited. A malicious HTTP server (reachable directly, via an attacker-controlled redirect, via SSRF, or via a man-in-the-middle) can stream complete header lines (or, after a chunked body, complete trailer lines) indefinitely without ever emitting the terminating blank line. The connection state grows without bound until the BEAM node is killed by the operating system's out-of-memory handler, taking down the entire application that uses Mint as an HTTP client. This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.9.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mint, elixir-mint/mint, upgrade to a fixed version (1.9.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-qrfr-wh4c-3qhw
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-58229.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-58229
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/566d702e6f29105f77522ca7aabb9f64f2f4e333

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