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  - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an     unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of     connections. The max_clients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets hardening guide     presents that limit as the first layer of denial-of-service defence, but a server that does not set it     explicitly accepts an unlimited number of simultaneous connections. Establishing the connections is     sufficient; no valid request and no authentication are required. The accept gate in     httpd_manager:handle_new_connection/4 reads the option with httpd_util:lookup/2, which returns undefined     when the key is absent, rather than the three-argument form carrying the 150 default that the neighbouring     get_ustate/2 uses. Erlang term ordering places every integer before every atom, so the Count =< Max guard     holds for any connection count and the server never returns {reject, busy}. Each accepted connection     occupies a worker process and a socket for as long as it is held, driving the node towards process, memory     and file descriptor exhaustion. Servers that set max_clients explicitly are unaffected, because a     configured value is applied as intended. 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. (CVE-2026-70399)

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Version 1.4 Sep 23, 2026, 1:21 PM Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202609231321
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