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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2026-23940

VendorhexProducthexpmDiscoveredMar 13, 2026UpdatedSep 8, 2026

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.

CVSS v3.1
6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.46%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
0
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 16, 2026 → Oct 22, 2026
▲ 0.02pp
0.44% → 0.46% over 2 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
2 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Mar 13, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Sep 8, 2026