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    CVE-2026-58226 (GCVE-0-2026-58226)

    Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-07-06 09:03 – Updated: 2026-07-06 14:04
    VLAI
    Title
    Unauthenticated denial-of-service via unbounded HPACK integer decoding in hpax
    Summary
    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.
    SSVC
    Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
    Assigner
    EEF
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    elixir-mint hpax Affected: 0.1.1 , < 1.0.4 (semver)
        cpe:2.3:a:elixir-mint:hpax:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    elixir-mint hpax Affected: 56db437a7e2c515e3bdd770ac7947b02cd2390d0 , < 1ba4bb2dc91e80089cf89c73970ac3ded76f17eb (git)
        cpe:2.3:a:elixir-mint:hpax:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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    Credits
    Peter Ullrich Andrea Leopardi Jonatan Männchen / EEF Eric Meadows-Jönsson
    Show details on NVD website

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