# CVE-2026-89420: Session voucher adding no new funds is accepted without a charge in mpp, serving paid resources for free

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.16.2
- Published: 2026-09-22 · Updated: 2026-09-22

## Affected

- mpp: from 0.14.0, fixed in 0.16.2
- zenhive/mpp: version range not reported

## Description

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in ZenHive mpp allows a client holding an open payment channel to obtain paid resources without being charged. MPP.Session.Actions.accept_voucher/3 in lib/mpp/session/actions.ex treats a voucher whose cumulativeAmount equals the channel's already-accepted cumulative amount as an idempotent success, returning the channel unchanged without calling maybe_spend/2. The credential verifies, the protected resource is served, and spent and units stay where they were. Because the server issues a fresh challenge per request and the credential replay store keys on challenge id and payload, the same signed voucher can be re-presented under every new challenge, so one paid voucher yields an unbounded number of paid units. The path is reachable from any method built on MPP.Session.Method through the Plug, MCP, JSON-RPC and WebSocket transports. This issue affects mpp: from 0.14.0 before 0.16.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mpp, zenhive/mpp, upgrade to a fixed version (0.16.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/ZenHive/mpp/security/advisories/GHSA-8c63-r789-xrrf
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-89420.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-89420
- https://github.com/ZenHive/mpp/commit/82df569c898be1137189e3648e1edb4af6363651
- https://github.com/ZenHive/mpp/commit/7270edc1dcfb58250cc5ee812876609206564165

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