CVE-2026-32688

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-plug plugcowboy allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via atom table exhaustion. Plug.Cowboy.Conn.conn/1 in lib/plug/cowboy/conn.ex calls String.toatom/1 on the value returned by :cowboyreq.scheme/1. For HTTP/2...

CVE-2026-32688 Atom table exhaustion via HTTP/2 :scheme pseudo-header in plug_cowboy

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-plug plugcowboy allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via atom table exhaustion. Plug.Cowboy.Conn.conn/1 in lib/plug/cowboy/conn.ex calls String.toatom/1 on the value returned by :cowboyreq.scheme/1. For HTTP/2...

CVE-2026-32688

This CVE affects elixir-plug plug_cowboy: Plug.Cowboy.Conn.conn/1 calls String.to_atom/1 on the value from :cowboy_req.scheme/1. For HTTP/2, the scheme header is client-supplied and passed verbatim by cowlib, creating a new BEAM atom per unique value. Atoms are not garbage-collected and the atom ...