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CVE-2026-109821EUVD-2026-113757

Unbounded port parsing in URI.parse/1 enables CPU exhaustion denial of service in Elixir

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.18.6, 1.19.7, 1.20.5
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The Elixir programming language's standard library URI module, which parses and handles web addresses, is affected. An attacker who supplies a crafted URL with an extremely long port number can cause the application to use excessive CPU time, leading to a denial of service.

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Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in the Elixir standard library's URI module allows an attacker who supplies a URL to cause a denial of service through CPU exhaustion. URI.parse/1 converts the port component with String.to_integer/1 in split_authority/1 (lib/elixir/lib/uri.ex) without bounding its length, so a port of up to 1,262,592 decimal digits produces a bignum of that size and a longer one raises SystemLimitError. Rendering the parsed URI back to text (URI.to_string/1, inspect/1, logging, error formatting) converts the bignum with :erlang.integer_to_binary/1, which is quadratic on Erlang/OTP 27, 28 and 29.0: a 400,000-digit port renders in about 2.6 seconds and a 1 MB port in about 18 seconds. Ports above 65535 are also accepted. This issue affects elixir: from 0.5.0 before 1.18.6, from 1.19.0-rc.0 before 1.19.7, and from 1.20.0-rc.0 before 1.20.5.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • elixir

    From 0.5.0 · fixed in 1.18.6; From 1.19.0-rc.0 · fixed in 1.19.7; From 1.20.0-rc.0 · fixed in 1.20.5

  • elixir-lang/elixir

    Version range not reported

References 9

GitHub · elixir-lang/elixir

cna.erlef.org

osv.dev

GitHub · erlang/otp