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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpcserver allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust…

CVE-2026-71397

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpcserver allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust memory and crash the node via an oversized client-streaming or bidirectional-streaming request body. The streaming read clause of 'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy.Handler':info/3 (grpcserver/lib/grpc/server/adapters/cowboy/handler.ex) never checks the configured maxbodysize. Only the unary read path enforces that cap. 'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy':readingstream/1 (grpcserver/lib/grpc/server/adapters/cowboy.ex) appends every received chunk to its buffer until a complete length-prefixed message arrives. A client can declare a very large message and send it across many small HTTP/2 DATA frames, and the server buffers all of it. This issue affects grpcserver: from 1.0.0 before 1.0.6.

Assessment

CVSS
8.2 (v4.0)
Severity
High
Known exploited
Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability
Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published
6 November 2026
Last updated
6 November 2026
Assigner
EEF

CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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