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"dateReserved": "2026-05-25T20:44:10.697Z",
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"value": "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-mint Mint allows attacker-controlled HTTP/2 servers to exhaust memory in a Mint client via PUSH_PROMISE flooding.<p>In <tt>lib/mint/http2.ex</tt>, <tt>'Elixir.Mint.HTTP2':decode_push_promise_headers_and_add_response/5</tt> inserts a <tt>:reserved_remote</tt> entry into <tt>conn.streams</tt> for every promised stream ID. The neighbouring <tt>'Elixir.Mint.HTTP2':assert_valid_promised_stream_id/2</tt> only verifies that the promised ID is even and not already present; <tt>client_settings.max_concurrent_streams</tt> is not consulted at promise time. The concurrency cap is only checked when the response <tt>HEADERS</tt> for the promised stream arrive, so a server that emits <tt>PUSH_PROMISE</tt> frames and withholds the matching <tt>HEADERS</tt> never trips that check.</p><p>HTTP/2 server push is accepted by default (<tt>client_settings.enable_push</tt> defaults to <tt>true</tt>). A single long-lived HTTP/2 connection to a hostile server lets that server pin one <tt>conn.streams</tt> entry per <tt>PUSH_PROMISE</tt> frame it sends, with no upper bound, until the client process runs out of memory.</p><p>This issue affects mint: from 0.2.0 before 1.9.0.</p>"
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"value": "<p>Disable HTTP/2 server push on connections to untrusted servers by passing <tt>client_settings: [enable_push: false]</tt> to <tt>'Elixir.Mint.HTTP':connect/4</tt>. This makes Mint reject any inbound <tt>PUSH_PROMISE</tt> frame with a <tt>PROTOCOL_ERROR</tt> before the vulnerable code path is reached.</p>"
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