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CVE-2026-43974

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

Labels: CVE-2026-43974 2026-06-086b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbCVE-2026-43974CWE-841

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

Unexpected Status Code or Return Value vulnerability in ninenines gun (gun_http module) allows a malicious HTTP server to force the client into raw protocol mode via an unsolicited 101 Switching Protocols response. In gun_http:handle_inform/8, when a 101 Switching Protocols response is received over HTTP/1.1, the function verifies only that the Upgrade header is syntactically valid and that the stream reference is a plain reference(). It does not check whether the client ever sent an Upgrade or Connection: upgrade header on the corresponding request. Because this check is absent, any 101 response (solicited or not) causes gun to dispatch a gun_upgrade message to the caller and transition the entire connection to raw protocol mode. A malicious or compromised HTTP server can send an unsolicited 101 response to any HTTP/1.1 request, causing the gun client to abandon HTTP framing for that connection. Once in raw mode, gun_raw applies no flow control (flow=infinity) and re-arms socket active mode after every received packet, so the server can flood the client with arbitrary bytes. These are forwarded as unbounded gun_data messages to the owner process, exhausting its mailbox and BEAM memory, ultimately crashing the VM. This issue affects gun: from 2.0.0 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:<2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*

References