VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2026-8468

high
Published 2026-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-20
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
8.2
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/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
VIR risk
8.0

Description

Plug: Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
Hexplug>=1.4.0,<1.15.4||>=1.16.0,<1.16.3||>=1.17.0,<1.17.1||>=1.18.0,<1.18.2||>=1.19.0,<1.19.21.15.4
Hexplug>=1.4.0,<1.15.41.15.4
Hexplug>=1.16.0,<1.16.31.16.3
Hexplug>=1.17.0,<1.17.11.17.1
Hexplug>=1.18.0,<1.18.21.18.2
Hexplug>=1.19.0,<1.19.21.19.2
ERLANGplug>= 1.19.0, < 1.19.21.19.2
ERLANGplug>= 1.18.0, < 1.18.21.18.2
ERLANGplug>= 1.17.0, < 1.17.11.17.1
ERLANGplug>= 1.16.0, < 1.16.31.16.3
ERLANGplug>= 1.4.0, < 1.15.41.15.4

References

CWEs

CWE-770

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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