Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting grpc_server package, versions <1.0.0
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- published16 Jun 2026
- disclosed15 Jun 2026
- creditPeter Ullrich
Introduced: 15 Jun 2026
NewCVE-2026-48854 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade grpc_server to version 1.0.0 or higher.
Overview
grpc_server is a GRPC is a fully featured Elixir implementation of the gRPC protocol (grpc.io), enabling efficient communication between services through a unified and stream-oriented API. It supports all RPC types, friendly error handling, TLS, interceptors, reflection, and optional HTTP transcoding.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the read_full_body/3 function. An attacker can cause server memory exhaustion and crash the node by sending a large or slow-trickle unary request body, especially when omitting the grpc-timeout header to keep the connection alive indefinitely while memory usage grows.