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
- 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:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/security/advisories/GHSA-vx6q-cr5q-945g
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-71397.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-71397
- https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/commit/49e18c3ec6bb9afe2f712caad3dbab5c56a68a00
- https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/commit/0b663ca53dbf0f36f7f67ff1d0026f4482a18915
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