Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpcserver allows a client to stall all later calls on a…
CVE-2026-123635
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpcserver allows a client to stall all later calls on a shared HTTP/2 connection via calls that the server refuses while their DATA frames are in flight. The stream handler grpcstreamh (grpcserver/src/grpcstreamh.erl) requests flow from Cowboy only for request data that has arrived. When the server refuses a call early, for example because the body exceeds maxbodysize or the method is not implemented, Cowboy drops the DATA frames still in flight for that stream. Their bytes are not returned to the connection flow-control window. After enough refused calls the window is empty. No call on that connection can then send a request body, and each call waits until its deadline. Other connections are not affected. This issue affects grpcserver: from 1.0.0 before 1.1.0.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.3 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 13 November 2026
- Last updated
- 13 November 2026
- Affected
- elixir-grpc · grpc_server
- Assigner
- EEF
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/security/advisories/GHSA-7x9q-vvph-rjcr
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-123635.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-123635
- https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/commit/0332faae5f5e132314794dbfdae5edecbccea292
- https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/commit/61a71948e6e7b95efb27d48e7084c764503cc802
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