GHSA-628H-Q48J-JR6Q

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-08 20:24 – Updated: 2026-05-08 20:24
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Summary
Phoenix: Long-poll NDJSON body splitting causes large memory allocation
Details

Summary

An unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability in Phoenix's long-poll transport allows a remote client to allocate a large amount of memory with a HTTP request. A handful of concurrent requests can be sufficient to let the node run out of memory.

See also https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-32689.html.

Details

The unoptimised code path exists on the application/x-ndjson POST handling in the LongPoll transport. The endpoint requires only a session token, which any client can obtain by issuing a GET to the same URL with a matching Origin header, so exploitation is unauthenticated.

Impact

Anyone who runs a LiveView app with a public Longpoll socket or uses a Phoenix.Socket with longpoll option. Longpoll has been enabled for newly generated Phoenix projects since Phoenix 1.7.11.

Severity ?
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
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  "id": "GHSA-628h-q48j-jr6q",
  "modified": "2026-05-08T20:24:15Z",
  "published": "2026-05-08T20:24:15Z",
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      "url": "https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-32689.html"
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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      "type": "WEB",
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      "type": "CVSS_V4"
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  "summary": "Phoenix: Long-poll NDJSON body splitting causes large memory allocation"
}


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