CVE-2026-71380

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71380
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-71380.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-71380
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2026-09-01T14:35:31.192Z
Modified
2026-09-03T03:48:19.088776498Z
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
httpd applies no timeout while receiving a request body, parking a worker on a stalled client
Details

Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending valid request headers with a large Content-Length and then stalling before the body is complete.

httpdrequesthandler:handleinfo/2 cancels the request timeout as soon as a parse step succeeds, which includes the headers, and the clause that handles a decoder asking for more data re-arms the socket with {active, once} without setting any further timer. httpdrequest:wholebody/2 returns such a continuation whenever the bytes received are fewer than the announced Content-Length, so a well-formed request that stops mid-body leaves the worker waiting indefinitely. The periodic byte-rate check that would reclaim it is armed only when minimumbytespersecond is configured, which it is not by default. Repeating this across connections occupies every worker permitted by max_clients and denies service to legitimate clients at negligible bandwidth cost.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.

Database specific
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    "cna_assigner": "EEF",
    "cwe_ids": [
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/erlang/otp

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/erlang/otp
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Database specific
Show details
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    "source": "REFERENCES"
}

Affected versions

OTP-17.*
OTP-17.0
OTP-18.*
OTP-18.0
OTP-18.0-rc1
OTP-19.*
OTP-19.0
OTP-19.0-rc1
OTP-19.0-rc2
OTP-20.*
OTP-20.0
OTP-20.0-rc1
OTP-20.0-rc2
OTP-21.*
OTP-21.0
OTP-21.0-rc1
OTP-21.0-rc2
OTP-22.*
OTP-22.0
OTP-22.0-rc1
OTP-22.0-rc2
OTP-22.0-rc3
OTP-23.*
OTP-23.0
OTP-23.0-rc1
OTP-23.0-rc2
OTP-23.0-rc3
OTP-24.*
OTP-24.0
OTP-24.0-rc1
OTP-24.0-rc2
OTP-24.0-rc3
OTP-25.*
OTP-25.0
OTP-25.0-rc1
OTP-25.0-rc2
OTP-25.0-rc3
OTP-26.*
OTP-26.0
OTP-26.0-rc1
OTP-26.0-rc2
OTP-26.0-rc3
OTP-27.*
OTP-27.0
OTP-27.0-rc1
OTP-27.0-rc2
OTP-27.0-rc3
OTP-27.1
OTP-27.2
OTP-27.3
OTP-27.3.1
OTP-27.3.2
OTP-27.3.3
OTP-27.3.4
OTP_17.*
OTP_17.0-rc1
OTP_17.0-rc2
Other
OTP_R13B03
OTP_R13B04
OTP_R14A
OTP_R14B
OTP_R14B01
OTP_R14B02
OTP_R14B03
OTP_R15A
OTP_R15B
OTP_R16A_RELEASE_CANDIDATE
OTP_R16B
patch-base-27

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-71380.json"