CVE-2026-23940 — Denial of Service via Oversized Package Upload
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in hexpm hexpm/hexpm allows Excessive Allocation. Publishing an oversized package can cause Hex.pm to run out of memory while ex…
Published: 2026-03-13 · CVSS: 7.1 · CVSS 4.0
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in hexpm hexpm/hexpm allows Excessive Allocation. Publishing an oversized package can cause Hex.pm to run out of memory while extracting the uploaded package tarball. This can terminate the affected application instance and result in a denial of service for package publishing and potentially other package-processing functionality. This issue affects hex.pm: before 2026-03-10.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7