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NVD Vulnerability Details :
CVE-2026-43970
Deferred
More InfoOfficial Page
Source-6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
View Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) details
Published At-13 May, 2026 | 19:17
Updated At-14 May, 2026 | 17:07

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in ninenines cowlib allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion. cow_spdy:inflate/2 in cowlib passes peer-supplied compressed bytes directly to zlib:inflate/2 with no output size bound. The SPDY header compression dictionary (?ZDICT) is public, and zlib compresses long runs of repeated bytes at roughly 1024:1, so a few kilobytes of SPDY frame payload can decompress to gigabytes on the BEAM heap, OOM-killing the node. A single unauthenticated SPDY frame is sufficient to trigger the condition. The parsers for syn_stream, syn_reply, and headers frame types are all affected via cow_spdy:parse_headers/2. This issue affects cowlib from 0.1.0 before 2.16.1.

CISA Catalog
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Metrics
TypeVersionBase scoreBase severityVector
Secondary4.08.2HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Type: Secondary
Version: 4.0
Base score: 8.2
Base severity: HIGH
Vector:
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CPE Matches

Weaknesses
CWE IDTypeSource
CWE-409Secondary6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
CWE ID: CWE-409
Type: Secondary
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
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References
HyperlinkSourceResource
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-43970.html6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
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https://github.com/ninenines/cowlib/commit/16aad3fb9f81f5cda4d1706ff0c54237c619c2826b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
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https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-439706b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
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Hyperlink: https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-43970.html
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Resource: N/A
Hyperlink: https://github.com/ninenines/cowlib/commit/16aad3fb9f81f5cda4d1706ff0c54237c619c282
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Resource: N/A
Hyperlink: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-43970
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Resource: N/A
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