CVE-2026-70399 httpd does not enforce the documented default max_clients connection limit

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The maxclients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets hardeni...

CVE-2026-70399

Erlang/OTP inets httpd contains a denial-of-service vulnerability (CVSS 4.0: 8.7 HIGH ). The accept gate in httpd_manager:handle_new_connection/4 reads max_clients via httpd_util:lookup/2, which returns undefined when the key is absent instead of the documented default of 150. Because Erlang term...

EUVD-2026-69223

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The maxclients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets hardeni...

CVE-2026-70399

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The maxclients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets hardeni...

CVE-2026-70399 httpd does not enforce the documented default max_clients connection limit

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The maxclients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets hardeni...

EEF-CVE-2026-70399 httpd does not enforce the documented default max_clients connection limit

Summary Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The maxclients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets...

PT-2026-84265

Gracefulness code ignored cases that should be rejected, resulting in possible HTTP Request Smuggling opportunities. This issue affects OTP from OTP 22.2 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 7.1.2 before 9.3.2.7,...

CVE-2026-66835: Path Equivalence: '//multiple/leading/slash'

Path Equivalence vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read files inside a modauth protected directory by prefixing the request path with an extra slash. httpdrequest:validateuri/1 normalises the request URI with uristring:normalize/1, which performs...

CVE-2026-71380: Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending valid request headers with a large Content-Length and then stalling before the body is complete...

CVE-2026-74994: Incorrect Authorization

The modauth module in OTP's inets httpd server, when configured with dets or mnesia authentication backends and multiple directory configuration blocks, collapses all directory blocks into a single shared user/group namespace. A user added to one protected directory is accepted as valid for all...

PT-2026-84266

httpd function check header/3 rejects duplicate Content-Length per CVE-2026-23941 but never checks for the TE+CL co-presence that RFC 9112 §6.3 identifies as a probable smuggling attempt. handle body/3 frames by chunked and silently discards Content-Length. A CL-preferring front-end paired with...

PT-2026-84259

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The max clients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets...

PT-2026-84268

The mod auth module in OTP's inets httpd server, when configured with dets or mnesia authentication backends and multiple directory configuration blocks, collapses all directory blocks into a single shared user/group namespace. A user added to one protected directory is accepted as valid for all...

PT-2026-84257

httpd has never implemented obs-fold RFC 2616 §2.2 / RFC 7230 §3.2.4 header continuation lines. Every CRLF followed by a non-CRLF octet unconditionally starts a new header. This missing feature became a security concern as the understanding of HTTP request smuggling attacks evolved. This issue...

CVE-2026-73276: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests

Gracefulness code ignored cases that should be rejected, resulting in possible HTTP Request Smuggling opportunities. This issue affects OTP from OTP 22.2 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 7.1.2 before 9.3.2.7,...

PT-2026-84264

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Erlang/OTP versions 17.0 through 27.3.4.16 Erlang/OTP versions 28.0 through 28.5.0.5 Erlang/OTP versions 29.0 through 29.0.5 Description Improper handling of case sensitivity in the inets httpd component allows a remote unauthenticated attacke...

PT-2026-84289

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Erlang/OTP versions 18.1.4 through 27.3.4.16 Erlang/OTP versions 28.0 through 28.5.0.5 Erlang/OTP versions 29.0 through 29.0.5 Description A resource leak in the inets httpd module allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of...

CVE-2026-71562: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpc allows a malicious or compromised HTTP server to degrade availability by returning a numeric header whose value is a very long run of digits. httpchandler.erl converts the server-supplied Content-Length wit...

CVE-2026-70399: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The maxclients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets hardeni...

CVE-2026-73270: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read files inside a modauth protected directory by requesting them with different casing, on deployments whose filesystem is case-insensitive. modauth:secretpath/3 decides...