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CVE

EEF-CVE-2026-23940

Denial of Service via Oversized Package Upload
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CVE

EEF-CVE-2026-23940

Denial of Service via Oversized Package Upload

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in hexpm hexpm/hexpm allows Excessive Allocation. Publishing an oversized package can cause Hex.pm to run out of memory while extracting the uploaded package tarball. This can terminate the affected application instance and result in a denial of service for package publishing and potentially other package-processing functionality.

This issue affects hexpm: before 495f01607d3eae4aed7ad09b2f54f31ec7a7df01; hex.pm: before 2026-03-10.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
7.1
-
4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
C
H
U
0
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C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/security/advisories/GHSA-jp8w-gxf6-8hcr, https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-23940.html, https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/495f01607d3eae4aed7ad09b2f54f31ec7a7df01

Severity

6.5

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
6.5
EPSS Probability
0.00068%
EPSS Percentile
0.20948%
Introduced Version
0
Fix Available
495f01607d3eae4aed7ad09b2f54f31ec7a7df01

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