CVE-2026-48862CWE-770

Unbounded conn.streams growth in Mint HTTP/2 client via unenforced PUSH_PROMISE concurrency

High · published June 2, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.2
EPSS
1%
Percentile
43.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-mint Mint allows attacker-controlled HTTP/2 servers to exhaust memory in a Mint client via PUSH_PROMISE flooding.

In lib/mint/http2.ex, Mint.HTTP2.decode_push_promise_headers_and_add_response/5 inserts a :reserved_remote entry into conn.streams for every promised stream ID. The neighbouring Mint.HTTP2.assert_valid_promised_stream_id/2 only verifies that the promised ID is even and not already present; client_settings.max_concurrent_streams is not consulted at promise time. The concurrency cap is only checked when the response HEADERS for the promised stream arrive, so a server that emits PUSH_PROMISE frames and withholds the matching HEADERS never trips that check.

HTTP/2 server push is accepted by default (client_settings.enable_push defaults to true). A single long-lived HTTP/2 connection to a hostile server lets that server pin one conn.streams entry per PUSH_PROMISE frame it sends, with no upper bound, until the client process runs out of memory.

This issue affects mint: from 0.2.0 before 1.9.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.2 · HIGH
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
EPSS
0.00524 · 43.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-06-02T14:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 JUN 14:15Z
    Unbounded conn.streams growth in Mint HTTP/2 client via unenforced PUSH_PROMISE concurrency
    cvelistv5