CVE-2026-48854
HIGH
8.7
CVSS 4.0
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-grpc grpc allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust the BEAM's memory and crash the server by streaming a large or slow-trickle unary request body.
'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy.Handler':read_full_body/3 (lib/grpc/server/adapters/cowboy/handler.ex) accumulates every received chunk into a single growing binary with no size cap. Additionally, when the client omits the grpc-timeout header, the per-chunk read timeout resolves to :infinity, allowing a slow-trickle client to keep the connection alive indefinitely while memory grows. A single connection is sufficient to exhaust server memory and crash the node.
This issue affects grpc from 0.3.1 before 1.0.0.
Metadata
Severity & Metrics
8.7
HIGH CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| elixir-grpc | grpc | — | 0.3.1 < 1.0.0 |
| elixir-grpc | grpc | — | d1abe70a6cad6dac4a3f8235d883d7c896989560 < 49e18c3ec6bb9afe2f712caad3dbab5c56a68a00 |
Weakness (CWE)
| CWE | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|
| CWE-770 | cna | CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling |
CVSS scores (1)
| Score | Severity | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.7 | HIGH | 4.0 | cna | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
References (4)