CVE-2026-48861

Published: Giu 02, 2026 Last Modified: Giu 02, 2026

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LOW 2,1

Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db

Attack Vector: local

Attack Complexity: low

Privileges Required: none

User Interaction: none

Confidentiality: N/A

Integrity: N/A

Availability: N/A

Description

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Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') vulnerability in elixir-mint Mint allows HTTP Request Splitting and HTTP Request Smuggling.

In lib/mint/http1/request.ex, the encode_request_line/2 function splices the caller-supplied method and target arguments directly into the HTTP/1 request line without any character validation: [method, ?\s, target, ' HTTP/1.1\r\n']. An application that forwards attacker-controlled input as the HTTP method or target to Mint.HTTP.request/5 is therefore exposed to request-line CRLF injection: the attacker can terminate the request line early, inject arbitrary headers, and smuggle an entirely separate pipelined HTTP request onto the same TCP connection.

Mint 1.7.0 introduced validate_request_target/2, which rejects CRLF and other control characters in the target by default and closes the path/query vector unless the caller opts out via skip_target_validation: true. The method field remains unvalidated, so the method-based injection is exploitable under the default Mint configuration on all versions.

This issue affects mint: from 0.1.0 before 1.9.0.