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CVE-2026-43973

· Published 08/06/2026 15:16 · Modified 09/06/2026 15:20

Labels: CVE-2026-43973 2026-06-086b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbCVE-2026-43973CWE-770

Essential information

Published
08/06/2026 15:16
Modified
09/06/2026 15:20
Author
Creator
CVSS
8.7 HIGH (v3) 8.7 HIGH (v4.0)
CISA KEV
No
CWE
CVSS vector

CVSS metrics

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ninenines gun (gun_http module) allows a malicious server to exhaust client memory via unbounded HTTP/1.1 response buffering. In gun_http:handle/5, three clauses accumulate incoming TCP data into the connection's buffer field using binary concatenation with no upper-bound check: the head clause appends data until the \r\n\r\n header terminator is found; the body_chunked clause appends data whenever cow_http_te:stream_chunked/2 returns a more result indicating an incomplete chunk boundary; and the body_trailer clause appends data until the trailing \r\n\r\n is found. In each case, when the expected terminator never arrives, the enlarged binary is stored back into state and the process waits for more data, with no configurable or hard-coded ceiling on buffer size. A malicious or compromised server can exploit this by sending a partial response that never completes. For example, a response may begin with HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nX-Pad: followed by an unbounded stream of arbitrary bytes, never sending the header terminator. The gun connection process will continuously append the incoming data to its buffer, causing unbounded heap growth. Because BEAM imposes no per-process heap limit by default, a single malicious connection can exhaust all available memory on the node, causing a node-wide out-of-memory crash. This issue affects gun: from 1.0.0 before 2.4.0.

NVD status

Status
Awaiting Analysis — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
NVD
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Affected products (CPE)

ProductCPE
ninenines / gun cpe:2.3:a:ninenines:gun:1.0.0-2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References