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.
CVSS
No CVSS.
References
Configurations
No configuration.
History
06 Jul 2026, 13:17
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06 Jul 2026, 11:16
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Information
Published : 2026-07-06 11:16
Updated : 2026-07-06 19:37
NVD link : CVE-2026-58226
Mitre link : CVE-2026-58226
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-58226
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Products Affected
No product.
CWE
CWE-407
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
