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2 vulnerabilities found for cowboy by ninenines
CVE-2026-8466 (GCVE-0-2026-8466)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-05-13 18:26 – Updated: 2026-05-14 04:30
VLAI
Title
Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in cowboy
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ninenines cowboy allows denial of service via unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing.
cowboy_req:read_part/3 in src/cowboy_req.erl accumulates incoming request bytes into a Buffer binary with no upper-bound check. When cow_multipart:parse_headers/2 returns more or {more, Buffer2}, the function reads up to Length bytes (default 64 KB) from the request body and recurses with the enlarged buffer. There is no equivalent of the byte_size(Acc) > Length guard present in the sibling function read_part_body/4. An unauthenticated attacker can send a multipart/form-data request whose body never yields a complete header section — for example, a body that never contains the advertised boundary delimiter, or one whose header lines never contain \r\n\r\n — and force the server process to accumulate memory linearly with the bytes the protocol layer is willing to deliver. A handful of concurrent such uploads is sufficient to exhaust BEAM memory.
This issue affects cowboy from 2.0.0 before 2.15.0.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-8466.html | relatedthird-party-advisory |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-8466 | related |
| https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/commit/5c6a20… | patch |
Impacted products
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CVE-2026-8466 (GCVE-0-2026-8466)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-13 18:26 – Updated: 2026-05-14 04:30
VLAI
Title
Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in cowboy
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in ninenines cowboy allows denial of service via unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing.
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Severity
CWE
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Assigner
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