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CVE-2026-82729: CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in elixir-mint mint

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-82729cvecve-2026-82729cwe-407
Published: 09/04/2026 (09/04/2026, 14:31:20 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: elixir-mint
Product: mint

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.

CVSS v4.0

Score 6.3medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
Present
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
None
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
Low
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
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

Affected software

mint
pkg:hex/mint
Affected versions
>=1.9.3 <1.10.0
GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
elixir-mint/mint
pkg:github/elixir-mint/mint
CPE configurations
cpe:2.3:a:elixir-mint:mint:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
EEF
Date Reserved
2026-08-31T00:59:08.960Z
Cvss Version
4.0
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a9adb41acd9273b49bef20d

Added to database: 09/04/2026, 14:52:49 UTC

Last updated: 09/04/2026, 23:22:33 UTC

Views: 9

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