CVE-2026-54892

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54892

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-54892.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-54892

Aliases

EEF-CVE-2026-54892
GHSA-j43x-5hjq-rgxf

Published

2026-06-23T12:31:12.629Z

Modified

2026-07-15T01:49:13.313556662Z

Severity

8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Plug: quadratic-time decoding of nested query/body parameters enables denial of service

Details

Inefficient algorithmic complexity in Plug's nested-parameter decoder allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service. Plug.Conn.Query.decode/4 (and Plug.Conn.Query.decode_each/2) parse query strings and application/x-www-form-urlencoded request bodies. When a key contains many bracketed segments such as a[a][a][a]=1, the decoder walks the brackets and, for each of the N levels, performs a map operation keyed on an ever-growing binary prefix of the key, hashing the full byte range at each step. The total decode cost is therefore quadratic in the number of nesting levels.

With the default Plug.Parsers.URLENCODED body limit of 1,000,000 bytes, a single request can carry roughly 333,000 nesting levels and saturate a BEAM scheduler for minutes. A small number of concurrent requests can saturate all schedulers and render a Plug-based server unresponsive. No authentication or knowledge of application routes is required.

This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/plug/conn/query.ex and program routines Plug.Conn.Query.decode/4, Plug.Conn.Query.decodeeach/2, Plug.Conn.Query.splitkeys/6, Plug.Conn.Query.insertkeys/3, and Plug.Conn.Query.finalizepointer/2.

This issue affects plug from 1.15.0 before 1.15.5, 1.16.4, 1.17.2, 1.18.3, and 1.19.3.

Database specific

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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elixir-plug/plug

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug

Events

Introduced

Fixed

9c5d37c440eaae92869eed7c014c47266744fadb

Fixed

a61124aa625d819a218fb07f90afbac8aa85eb0e

Fixed

c317d08fdcf96e17931f7419275b2b8c4bf3e951

Fixed

d4e5568392a4b29e545b91e12e87d6098f976145

Fixed

d737eb236f17e31a36290e39f9ef3cd86a1343bd

Database specific

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Database specific

source

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