# 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-2026-8468"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-14T10:29:51.062Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T15:41:29.241Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-8468"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-8468.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8468"
title: "Unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing causes denial of service in plug"
summary: "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in plug_project plug allows denial of service via unbounded buffer accumulation in multipart header parsing.\n\n'Elixir.Plug.Conn':read_part_headers/2 in lib/plug/conn.ex does not obey its :length parameter. There is no upper bound on the size of the accumulated buffer. By contrast, the sibling function read_part_body has an explicit byte_size(acc) \u003e length guard that stops accumulation once a limit is reached. No such guard exists in read_part_headers. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory by sending a crafted multipart/form-data request, causing a denial of service.\n\nThis issue affects plug from 1.4.0 before 1.15.4, 1.16.3, 1.17.1, 1.18.2, and 1.19.2."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1.4.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.15.4"},{"version":"1.16.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.16.3"},{"version":"1.17.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.17.1"},{"version":"1.18.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.18.2"},{"version":"1.19.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.19.2"}],"vendor":"elixir-plug","product":"plug","packageName":"plug","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"c52b2f32c90bccd718202bafccb5f95594e30183","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"*","changes":[{"at":"2cb7958d33030aa826b0c7404375844d4593d43a","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"aa69c5ece99c40ded88b8c6581ecc86664b0b734","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"d5dfffe25e975585227b1b85d247b0d14164bc45","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"df812a1527bae9e941965e897308a2b8bbf83a94","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"33858427c7f2737d560a2e40a0c9a9270d77d1d7","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"elixir-plug","product":"plug","packageName":"elixir-plug/plug","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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