uri_string does not bound the port component of a URI before integer conversion (Erlang OTP)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.71 % · percentile 53 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- EEF
- NVD status
- Deferred
Description
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP stdlib allows a remote attacker to degrade availability by supplying a URI whose port component is a very long run of digits. uri_string:get_port/1 passes the port substring to binary_to_integer/1 with no length bound, catching only error:badarg, so a syntactically valid port of up to roughly 1.26 million digits converts successfully and costs the calling process hundreds of milliseconds of arbitrary-precision arithmetic. The conversion is reached from every authority-parsing path in uri_string:parse/1, including the host, registered-name, and IPv4 and IPv6 forms. parse/1 is the documented interface for parsing URIs, so any application that parses an attacker-supplied URI is exposed without further configuration. 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 OTPÂ 21.0 before OTPÂ 27.3.4.17, from OTPÂ 28.0 before OTPÂ 28.5.0.6, and from OTPÂ 29.0 before OTPÂ 29.0.6, corresponding to stdlib from 3.5 before 6.2.2.5, from 7.0 before 7.3.0.2, and from 8.0 before 8.0.4.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-1284 — Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
References
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-8qw4-2chm-mvj2
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-59696.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-59696
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d700bf4ac94607cf7f00e53bbe4042d
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e3be1cfe9f6cedd0cd20d9905e05601dfb31c8aa
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 4.0 | MEDIUM 6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | EEF |
| CVSS 4.0 | MEDIUM 6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/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 | NVD · 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-69229
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-59696
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Erlang · OTP | affected 21.0 < 27.3.4.17 ; affected 28.0 < 28.5.0.6 ; affected 29.0 < 29.0.6 |
| Erlang · OTP | affected 3.5 < 6.2.2.5 ; affected 7.0 < 7.3.0.2 ; affected 8.0 < 8.0.4 |
| Erlang · OTP | affected 29a9dd0e17a97a3e6e46f0d08c6ba8f31db33f5e < * |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |