CVE-2026-8468CWE-770

Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in plug

High · published May 14, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.2
EPSS
1%
Percentile
57.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in plug_project plug allows denial of service via unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing.

'Elixir.Plug.Conn':read_part_headers/2 in lib/plug/conn.ex does not obey its :length parameter. There is no upper bound on the size of the accumulated buffer. By contrast, the sibling function read_part_body has an explicit byte_size(acc) > length guard that stops accumulation once a limit is reached. No such guard exists in read_part_headers. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory by sending a crafted multipart/form-data request, causing a denial of service.

This issue affects plug from 1.4.0 before 1.15.4, 1.16.3, 1.17.1, 1.18.2, and 1.19.2.

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
0.00846 · 57.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-05-14T10:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 MAY 10:29Z
    Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in plug
    cvelistv5