# CVE-2026-59249: Sign-tolerant HTTP/1 chunk-size parser in Mint enables response smuggling against strict intermediaries on pooled connections

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.9.3
- Published: 2026-07-16 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- mint: from 0.1.0, fixed in 1.9.3
- elixir-mint/mint: version range not reported

## Description

Inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests (HTTP response smuggling) vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a malicious HTTP/1 server to desynchronize a strict intermediary and the Mint client on the same pooled connection, enabling response-queue poisoning against subsequent requests that share the connection. The Mint.HTTP1.decode_body/5 function in lib/mint/http1.ex parses the chunk-size line of a Transfer-Encoding: chunked response with Integer.parse(data, 16). RFC 7230 defines chunk-size = 1*HEXDIG and forbids any sign prefix, but Integer.parse/2 accepts an optional leading + or -. A chunk-size line of +5 is accepted as a five-byte chunk; lines of +0 and -0 are accepted as the terminating zero-length chunk and end the message body early. An RFC-strict intermediary in the response path rejects these forms, so the intermediary and the Mint client disagree on where one response ends and the next begins. On a pooled keep-alive connection, an attacker-influenced origin can inject bytes that the client attributes to the next legitimate response on the same connection, poisoning the response queue and corrupting the responses returned to unrelated in-flight requests. This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.9.3.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mint, elixir-mint/mint, upgrade to a fixed version (1.9.3) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-x3x7-96vm-6h2w
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-59249.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-59249
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/fc7d16538db7e40b56ed489f08683225cb0197fa

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