CVE-2026-43973 gun HTTP/1.1 response buffer has no size limit allowing server-controlled memory exhaustion

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ninenines gun gunhttp module allows a malicious server to exhaust client memory via unbounded HTTP/1.1 response buffering. In gunhttp:handle/5, three clauses accumulate incoming TCP data into the connection's buffer field using binary concatenati...

CVE-2026-43973

CVE-2026-43973 concerns the Erlang/Elixir library gun_http in the Gun framework. The vulnerability is an uncontrolled resource consumption: three code paths in gun_http:handle/5 accumulate TCP data into a connection buffer using binary concatenation with no upper bound. If a malicious server send...