CVE-2026-56814

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. Because 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. This 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. This issue affects plug: from 1.4.0 before 1.16.6, from 1.17.0 before 1.17.4, from 1.18.0 before 1.18.5, from 1.19.0 before 1.19.5, and from 1.20.0 before 1.20.3.

• CWE-770

• https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-56814.html
• https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/commit/0ee8afcc61466dc5f7a8f048d0632c899165b81f
• https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/commit/56edca2ce35fe5589cd581644d8a4493fa5f484e
• https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/commit/981597d3a4271ede64373c7a731702a42c500dd6
• https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/commit/cae36053350e5215a4e0ca33cd130af9c5fc6364
• https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/commit/df97d3f17f808a9916a7700a701fb85314559d56
• https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/commit/f7effaed811c00b5f5bf817936bfd9c5df27b7dc
• https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/security/advisories/GHSA-95qv-c9g9-rm63
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-56814

Published

Jul 10, 2026

Last Modified

Jul 10, 2026

Status

Deferred

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