CVE-2026-23940

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in hexpm hexpm/hexpm allows Excessive Allocation. Publishing an oversized package can cause Hex.pm to run out of memory while extracting the uploaded package tarball. This can terminate the affected application instance and result in a denial of service for package publishing and potentially other package-processing functionality. This issue affects hex.pm: before 2026-03-10.

Score

CVSS 4.0 7.1 High

Status

Modified - 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

Published

2026-03-13

Last modified

2026-09-08

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Hexpm (Hex)
• Hexpm (Hexpm)

References

• https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-23940.html
• https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/495f01607d3eae4aed7ad09b2f54f31ec7a7df01
• https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/commit/82911daf5f8fb2ab44f298e3ba22b90bc1ae3746
• https://github.com/hexpm/hexpm/security/advisories/GHSA-jp8w-gxf6-8hcr
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-23940