# CVE-2026-82728: Unbounded HTTP/1 status-line and chunk-extension buffering 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: 1.10.0
- Published: 2026-09-04 · Updated: 2026-09-04

## Affected

- mint: from 0.1.0, fixed in 1.10.0
- elixir-mint/mint: version range not reported

## Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a remote HTTP server to exhaust memory on the client host and cause a denial of service. Two HTTP/1 response-parser states accumulate server data without any cap. In lib/mint/http1.ex, decode_status_line/4 stores the unconsumed data in conn.buffer when the status line is incomplete, and decode_body/5 does the same for an unterminated chunk-extension line. Both wait for a CRLF the server never has to send, and conn.buffer is prepended to every subsequent socket message. The :max_header_list_size budget is wired only into decode_headers/5 and decode_trailer_headers/4, so neither of these states is covered by it. A malicious server, or one reached through an attacker-controlled redirect or a fetched URL, streams bytes indefinitely until the BEAM node is killed by the operating system out-of-memory handler. The chunk-extension variant is reached after a valid status line and a complete, valid header section, so an intermediary inspecting only headers sees an ordinary 200 response. This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.10.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mint, elixir-mint/mint, upgrade to a fixed version (1.10.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/security/advisories/GHSA-g83f-2j6r-q6m4
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82728.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82728
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/19be5558b6a317e271c78666498dd78b151e490a

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