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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 (HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood).<p>When Mint's HTTP/2 receive path observes a <tt>HEADERS</tt> frame without the <tt>END_HEADERS</tt> flag, the unparsed header-block fragment is parked in <tt>conn.headers_being_processed</tt>, and every subsequent <tt>CONTINUATION</tt> frame on that stream is appended to the accumulator. Nothing in the receive path caps the accumulator: there is no per-stream size limit, no <tt>CONTINUATION</tt> frame-count limit, and <tt>max_header_list_size</tt> is only enforced on outgoing requests, never on inbound header blocks (its default is <tt>:infinity</tt>).</p><p>A malicious or compromised HTTP/2 server can stream an endless sequence of <tt>CONTINUATION</tt> frames (each up to the peer-advertised <tt>SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE</tt>) and drive the client's iolist to arbitrary size, causing memory exhaustion and BEAM process death. A single connection to an attacker-controlled HTTP/2 endpoint is sufficient.</p><p>This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.9.0.</p>"
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