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Description
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.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-407
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Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-130
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Excessive Allocation
MITRE ↗
Affected — Hex / hpax Hex.pm ↗ Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / elixir-mint/hpax Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
References
GHSA-jj2p-32j7-whj2 ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-58226 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
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