# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43974"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-08T14:12:36.957Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-08T16:34:38.989Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43974"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43974.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43974"
title: "gun HTTP/1.1 client accepts unsolicited 101 Switching Protocols response allowing server-driven protocol hijack and OOM"
summary: "Unexpected Status Code or Return Value vulnerability in ninenines gun (gun_http module) allows a malicious HTTP server to force the client into raw protocol mode via an unsolicited 101 Switching Protocols response.\n\nIn gun_http:handle_inform/8, when a 101 Switching Protocols response is received over HTTP/1.1, the function verifies only that the Upgrade header is syntactically valid and that the stream reference is a plain reference(). It does not check whether the client ever sent an Upgrade or Connection: upgrade header on the corresponding request. Because this check is absent, any 101 response (solicited or not) causes gun to dispatch a gun_upgrade message to the caller and transition the entire connection to raw protocol mode.\n\nA malicious or compromised HTTP server can send an unsolicited 101 response to any HTTP/1.1 request, causing the gun client to abandon HTTP framing for that connection. Once in raw mode, gun_raw applies no flow control (flow=infinity) and re-arms socket active mode after every received packet, so the server can flood the client with arbitrary bytes. These are forwarded as unbounded gun_data messages to the owner process, exhausting its mailbox and BEAM memory, ultimately crashing the VM.\n\nThis issue affects gun: from 2.0.0 before 2.4.0."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.4.0"}],"vendor":"ninenines","product":"gun","packageName":"gun","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"a3c2edbb8c807717e2f10520c6cf1e77a62eab2e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b48068c29ce5e112cb149b5857c7d4dc319a81b"}],"vendor":"ninenines","product":"gun","packageName":"ninenines/gun","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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