# CVE-2026-82729: Quadratic chunk-size parsing in Mint.HTTP1.Parse allows CPU-exhaustion DoS

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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 1.9.3, fixed in 1.10.0
- elixir-mint/mint: version range not reported

## Description

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in elixir-mint mint allows a remote HTTP server to exhaust CPU on the client host and cause a denial of service. parse_hex_prefix/2 in lib/mint/http1/parse.ex folds each hex digit of a chunked response's chunk-size field into an arbitrary-precision accumulator with acc * 16 + digit and imposes no limit on the digit count. Because the accumulator grows without bound, the multiplication is not constant time and one pass over N digits costs O(N squared). handle_data/2 prepends conn.buffer and re-parses from the start on every socket message, so a server that dribbles the digits out in small packets makes the client pay that cost repeatedly. A run of roughly 512,000 hex digits costs over ten seconds of CPU in a single pass, measured on stock defaults. The parser reaches this state 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 1.9.3 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-7p8w-j234-7qc8
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-82729.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-82729
- https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/commit/bd2a4e7513594997c140cfef9fe0e968712fb588

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