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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

CVE ID
CVE-2026-48854
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
EEF
Reserved
2026-05-25 20:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-15 21:55 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-15 21:55 UTC
Primary CWE
CWE-770
CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Vendor / Product
elixir-grpc / grpc
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

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)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
elixir-grpc grpc 0.3.1 < 1.0.0
elixir-grpc grpc d1abe70a6cad6dac4a3f8235d883d7c896989560 < 49e18c3ec6bb9afe2f712caad3dbab5c56a68a00
Weakness (CWE)
CWESourceDescription
CWE-770 cna CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS scores (1)
ScoreSeverityVersionSourceVector
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
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