CVE-2026-58226CWE-407

Unauthenticated denial-of-service via unbounded HPACK integer decoding in hpax

High · published July 6, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in elixir-mint hpax allows unauthenticated denial-of-service via unbounded HPACK integer decoding.

hpax decodes HPACK variable-length integers with no upper bound on the decoded value or the number of continuation octets. 'Elixir.HPAX.Types':decode_remaining_integer/3 accumulates the integer as int + (value <<< m), shifting by 7 more bits for each continuation octet and stopping only on a terminating octet or truncated input, never because the integer grew too large. Because BEAM integers are arbitrary precision, a run of N continuation octets builds an O(N)-bit bignum and re-adds into an ever-larger bignum on each step, so the total decoding cost is superlinear (about O(N^2)). An unauthenticated attacker who can send an HTTP/2 header block to a server using this decoder (reached through the 'Elixir.HPAX':decode/2 entry point) can supply a small header block that forces a large, attacker-controlled amount of CPU (and transient memory), a denial-of-service amplification.

This issue affects hpax from 0.1.1 before 1.0.4.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00547 · 45.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-407 · Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Published
2026-07-06T09:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 JUL 09:03Z
    Unauthenticated denial-of-service via unbounded HPACK integer decoding in hpax
    cvelistv5