CVE-2026-56811
Vulnérabilité élevée dans phoenix (phoenixframework)
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in phoenixframework phoenix (Phoenix.Socket module) allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service against any endpoint that mounts a Phoenix socket with a reachable channel transport (WebSocket or LongPoll). This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/phoenix/socket.ex and program routine 'Elixir.Phoenix.Socket':handle_in/4. Phoenix transports do not limit the number of channels that a single transport process may join. Every phx_join message a client sends over one connection starts a persistent channel process, and the socket process accepts an unbounded number of them. A single unauthenticated client can therefore open one WebSocket or LongPoll connection and stream a large number of phx_join messages, spawning hundreds of thousands of channel processes over that one connection and eventually reaching the BEAM maximum process limit. Once the process table is exhausted the virtual machine can no longer start new processes, denying service to legitimate traffic across the whole node. Because the amplification happens inside a single connection, network-layer connection caps and rate limiting do not mitigate it. The fix adds a :max_channels_per_transport option (default 100) that bounds the number of channels a single transport process can join, forcing abusive clients to open many connections instead, where external load balancers and reverse proxies can throttle them. This issue affects phoenix: from 0.11.0 before 1.5.15, from 1.6.0-rc.0 before 1.6.17, from 1.7.0-rc.0 before 1.7.24, and from 1.8.0-rc.0 before 1.8.9.
Gravité et risque d'exploitation
CVE-2026-56811 obtient un score CVSS de 8.7/10, soit une gravité élevée. Selon le modèle EPSS, la probabilité qu'elle soit exploitée dans les 30 prochains jours est de 0.78 %, ce qui la place devant 55.0 % des CVE référencées.
Que faire ?
- Vérifiez si phoenix (versions <1.5.15, 1.6.0-rc.0, <1.6.17, 1.7.0-rc.0, 0.11.0, 1.8.0-rc.0, <1.8.9, <1.7.24, <*, 14a297e88023cb280a577962a49a0bbdeef9f4eb) est présent sur votre parc.
- Appliquez le correctif ou la version corrigée indiqués dans les références de l'éditeur.
- À défaut de correctif, limitez l'exposition (filtrage réseau, désactivation du composant).
- Automatisez la détection : les agents CVE Heimdall (gratuits, open source) corrèlent l'inventaire de vos serveurs avec la base CVE.
Références
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/security/advisories/GHSA-6983-jfq8-485w
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-56811.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-56811
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/14a297e88023cb280a577962a49a0bbdeef9f4eb
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/c498ba8cf49f6accbbd0c643a5340b58db891218
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/d19ca0a8d9f82c130b7ed339b9f033433e2dea5e
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/a612100cd8a4279091abc1a2ef8fb98a6d01c0a1
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/commit/16e295d2fccab185d1292322e2bee5d46c725c8a
