Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in the Elixir standard library's URI module allows an attacker who…
CVE-2026-109821
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.tointeger/1 in splitauthority/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.tostring/1, inspect/1, logging, error formatting) converts the bignum with :erlang.integertobinary/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.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.3 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 30 October 2026
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
- Weakness
- CWE-1284, CWE-400
- Assigner
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
At the source
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-109821.html
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/07d9abc3f3ac4c8d2ba8384bd102b6d6205b08b7
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/39801821eef2d06524e5ebf5a0e4b3c380ad23ae
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/9a39d64a4473d02681c486bc70681c972479d32b
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/b70f33a591b6ab8eb0fa4a7e00bac1c2ed4e0d58
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/d879b39d778fec2f475689573d5672720c4f2a21
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/security/advisories/GHSA-327h-97cv-59xg
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-8qw4-2chm-mvj2
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-109821
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