THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-23940 (MEDIUM 6.5) — 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
[NVD] CVE-2026-23940 (MEDIUM 6.5) — 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
CVE-2026-23940 CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-03-13T19:54:14.640
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 po
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-23940cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-23940