mpp writes Payment-Receipt and Cache-Control before the wrapped application runs, letting…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Use of Cache Containing Sensitive Information in ZenHive mpp allows a shared HTTP cache to store a paid response and serve it to clients that never paid. MPP.Plug.verify_credential in lib/mpp/plug.ex sets payment-receipt and cache-control: private on the connection before the wrapped application runs, and registers no register_before_send/2 callback. Plug.Conn.put_resp_header/3 replaces an existing header, so a mounting application that sets its own cache-control on the paid resource (for example public, max-age=3600) silently overrides the private the library relies on, and a CDN or reverse proxy can then store the paid 200 together with its Payment-Receipt and serve both to unpaid clients. The library-level guarantee is therefore defeatable by the application it protects. For the same reason a downstream non-2xx response still carried Payment-Receipt, issuing a receipt for a response that delivered no resource. This issue affects mpp: from 0.1.0 before 0.16.2.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZenHive | mpp | 0.1.0 to before 0.16.2 | 0.16.2 | Patch available | CNA |
- mpp VendorZenHive Affected 0.1.0 to before 0.16.2 Fixed in 0.16.2 Patch available CNA
CPE names CNA · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:ZenHive:mpp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | — |
- cpe:2.3:a:ZenHive:mpp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·—
Remediation
- Fix · CNA mpp (ZenHive) Fixed in 0.16.2
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
ZenHive mpp 0.16.2
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-60087 mpp Tempo keys its pre-broadcast dedup reserve on the caller-supplied transaction…Priority LOW 29
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-89186
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4h6w-pvrh-g28p
References
More ZenHive vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-42571 Unbounded max_fee_per_gas in mpp Tempo fee-payer enables single-request wallet drain CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-42570 Unbounded access list in mpp Tempo fee-payer inflates gas cost per payment CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-42392 Missing gas_limit validation in mpp Tempo fee-payer enables wallet drain CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2026-60473 Session voucher adding no new funds is accepted without a charge in mpp, serving paid resources for free CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
- TI-2026-47746 On-chain transfer proof is not single-use in mpp EVM payment method, enabling cross-challenge replay CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-51635 Resource allocation without limits in ZenHive mpp CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-89186 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-89186 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-4h6w-pvrh-g28p · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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