CVE-2026-71397

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'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy':reading_stream/1 (grpc_server/lib/grpc/server/adapters/cowboy.ex) appends every received chunk to its buffer until a complete length-prefixed message arrives. A client can declare a very large message and send it across many small HTTP/2 DATA frames, and the server buffers all of it.\n\nThis issue affects grpc_server: from 1.0.0 before 1.0.6."}], "impacts": [{"capecId": "CAPEC-130", "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "supportingMedia": [{"base64": false, "type": "text/html", "value": "<p>An unauthenticated client can crash a <code>grpc_server</code> node through one streaming RPC connection. This takes down every service on that node.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "An unauthenticated client can crash a `grpc_server` node through one streaming RPC connection. This takes down every service on that node."}], "value": "An unauthenticated client can crash a grpc_server node through one streaming RPC connection. 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Until then, the buffer grows with every chunk.</p>\n<p><strong>3. Memory exhaustion</strong></p>\n<p>A client that declares a large message length and keeps sending DATA frames without <code>END_STREAM</code> makes the buffer grow without limit. The BEAM eventually runs out of memory and the node crashes.</p>"}, {"base64": false, "type": "text/markdown", "value": "**1. The cap applies to unary reads only**\n\nThe commit that added `max_body_size` checks it in `read_full_body/4`, which serves unary requests through the `{:read_full_body, ref, pid}` clause of `'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy.Handler':info/3`. The `{:read_body, ref, pid}` clause, which serves streaming requests, returns each chunk to the caller with no size check.\n\n**2. Unbounded buffering**\n\n`'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy':reading_stream/1` reads chunks through that clause and appends each one to a binary buffer. It emits a message only when `GRPC.Message.get_message/1` finds a complete length-prefixed gRPC message in the buffer. Until then, the buffer grows with every chunk.\n\n**3. Memory exhaustion**\n\nA client that declares a large message length and keeps sending DATA frames without `END_STREAM` makes the buffer grow without limit. The BEAM eventually runs out of memory and the node crashes."}], "value": "1. The cap applies to unary reads only\n\nThe commit that added max_body_size checks it in read_full_body/4, which serves unary requests through the {:read_full_body, ref, pid} clause of 'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy.Handler':info/3. The {:read_body, ref, pid} clause, which serves streaming requests, returns each chunk to the caller with no size check.\n\n2. Unbounded buffering\n\n'Elixir.GRPC.Server.Adapters.Cowboy':reading_stream/1 reads chunks through that clause and appends each one to a binary buffer. 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