# 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-2026-56814"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-10T11:14:35.574Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-24T21:31:15.419Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z"
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-2026-56814"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-56814.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-56814"
title: "Plug: multipart :length limit is not charged for part headers, enabling unbounded temp-file creation (denial of service)"
summary: "Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART, the multipart request-body parser used to handle file uploads and multipart forms, does not enforce its :length budget against all consumed resources, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service. The parser charges the :length limit only for part body bytes; part header bytes are never counted, and a part with an empty body costs zero.\n\nBecause every part whose Content-Disposition carries a non-empty filename creates a fresh temporary file (via Plug.Upload) and retains a Plug.Upload struct for the duration of the request, an attacker can send a single request composed of many empty-body file parts. Such a request stays well under the configured :length limit (8,000,000 bytes by default) while creating one temporary file per part, leading to inode and disk exhaustion and unbounded memory growth. Any application using Plug.Parsers with the :multipart parser is affected, and no authentication is required, only reachability of a multipart endpoint over HTTP.\n\nThis vulnerability is associated with program files lib/plug/parsers/multipart.ex and program routines Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART.parse_multipart/2, Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART.parse_multipart_headers/5, Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART.parse_multipart_body/4, and Plug.Parsers.MULTIPART.parse_multipart_file/4.\n\nThis issue affects plug: from 1.4.0-rc.0 before 1.16.6, from 1.17.0 before 1.17.4, from 1.18.0 before 1.18.5, from 1.19.1 before 1.19.5, and from 1.20.0 before 1.20.3."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1.4.0-rc.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.16.6"},{"version":"1.17.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.17.4"},{"version":"1.18.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.18.5"},{"version":"1.19.1","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.19.5"},{"version":"1.20.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.20.3"}],"vendor":"elixir-plug","product":"plug","packageName":"plug","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"c52b2f32c90bccd718202bafccb5f95594e30183","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"*","changes":[{"at":"981597d3a4271ede64373c7a731702a42c500dd6","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"56edca2ce35fe5589cd581644d8a4493fa5f484e","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"0ee8afcc61466dc5f7a8f048d0632c899165b81f","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"cae36053350e5215a4e0ca33cd130af9c5fc6364","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"f7effaed811c00b5f5bf817936bfd9c5df27b7dc","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"df97d3f17f808a9916a7700a701fb85314559d56","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"elixir-plug","product":"plug","packageName":"elixir-plug/plug","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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