Is there a public exploit for CVE-2026-71562?

No public exploit for CVE-2026-71562 was found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei templates or public proof-of-concept repositories. That is an absence of evidence rather than proof that none exists.

How severe is CVE-2026-71562?

CVE-2026-71562 scores CVSS 6.3 (v4.0), rated medium. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.58%.

What does CVE-2026-71562 affect?

CVE-2026-71562 affects erlang otp.

6.3 Medium

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpc allows a malicious or compromised HTTP server to…

CVE-2026-71562

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpc allows a malicious or compromised HTTP server to degrade availability by returning a numeric header whose value is a very long run of digits. httpchandler.erl converts the server-supplied Content-Length with listtointeger/1 before comparing it against maxbodysize, so the size check cannot protect the conversion, and the option defaults to nolimit in any case. The same unbounded conversion appears in httpcresponse:formatresponse/1 for Content-Length and in httpcresponse:getmsfromretryafter/1 for Retry-After, which is guarded only by a check that the first character is a digit. A value of up to roughly 1.26 million digits converts successfully and costs the requesting process hundreds of milliseconds of arbitrary-precision arithmetic per response. The conversion function is documented to accept integers of any size, so bounding the input is the caller's responsibility. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, OTP 28.5.0.6, and OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, 9.6.2.3, and 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is…

Assessment

CVSS: 6.3 (v4.0)
Severity: Medium
EPSS: 0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Known exploited: Not listed in CISA KEV
Exploit availability: Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
Published: 1 September 2026
Last updated: 11 November 2026
Affected: erlang · otp
Assigner: EEF

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

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