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CVE-2026-8468

31
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 14, 2026Last modified: May 14, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Elixir-PlugPlug
>= c52b2f32c90bccd718202bafccb5f95594e30183, < *CNA affecteddefault unaffected
Elixir-PlugPlug
>= 1.4.0, < 1.15.4, >= 1.16.0, < 1.16.3, >= 1.17.0, < 1.17.1, >= 1.18.0, < 1.18.2, >= 1.19.0, < 1.19.2CNA affecteddefault unaffected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

8.2HIGH

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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0062 is in the 23rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

erlangpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: plugFixed in: 1.15.4
erlangpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: plugFixed in: 1.16.3
erlangpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: plugFixed in: 1.17.1
erlangpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: plugFixed in: 1.18.2
erlangpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: plugFixed in: 1.19.2

Vendor Advisories (1)

erlangGHSA-468c-vq7p-gh64high

Plug: Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service

May 20, 2026

References

cna.erlef.org / cves/CVE-2026-8466.html
cna.erlef.org / cves/CVE-2026-8468.html
github.com / elixir-plug/plug/commit/2cb7958d33030aa826b0c7404375844d4593d43a
github.com / elixir-plug/plug/commit/33858427c7f2737d560a2e40a0c9a9270d77d1d7
github.com / elixir-plug/plug/commit/aa69c5ece99c40ded88b8c6581ecc86664b0b734
github.com / elixir-plug/plug/commit/d5dfffe25e975585227b1b85d247b0d14164bc45
github.com / elixir-plug/plug/commit/df812a1527bae9e941965e897308a2b8bbf83a94
github.com / elixir-plug/plug/security/advisories/GHSA-468c-vq7p-gh64
osv.dev / vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-8468