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CVE-2026-105274 (GCVE-0-2026-105274)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-12 16:43 – Updated: 2026-10-12 18:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
hex_core decompresses registry and Erlang term API responses without size limits
Summary
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in hexpm hex_core allows an untrusted repository mirror, or a server answering hex_core's API requests, to exhaust the memory of the Erlang VM running hex_core. The same code is vendored in Hex (mix_hex_repo, mix_hex_api) and rebar3 (r3_hex_repo, r3_hex_api).
hex_repo:get_names/1, hex_repo:get_versions/1, hex_repo:get_package/2 and hex_repo:get_policy/2 decompress the registry response with zlib:gunzip/1 and decode the signed envelope before verifying its signature. A mirror doesn't have the repository's private key, but it chooses the compressed bytes, so a small response decompresses into an envelope of any size before the signature check rejects it.
hex_api decodes responses with the application/vnd.hex+erlang content type through hex_safe_binary_to_term:safe_binary_to_term/1, which calls binary_to_term(Binary, [safe]). The safe option prevents atom creation, but it accepts compressed terms and doesn't limit the size of the decoded term, and the check that rejects functions and ports runs after the term has been built. The fix for CVE-2026-21619 added the safe option and that check without bounding the decoded size.
This issue affects rebar3: from 3.9.1 before 3.27.3; hex: from 2.1.0 before 2.5.2; hex_core: from 0.1.0 before 0.20.0.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Assigner
References
9 references
Impacted products
6 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| erlang | rebar3 |
Affected:
3.9.1 , < 3.27.3
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:erlang:rebar3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| erlang | rebar3 |
Affected:
209c02ec57c2cc3207ee0174c3af3675b8dc8f79 , < 360838a22f5b3a88c0358207f2923059bcbb3afb
(git)
cpe:2.3:a:erlang:rebar3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| hexpm | hex_core |
Affected:
0.1.0 , < 0.20.0
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:hexpm:hex_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| hexpm | hex_core |
Affected:
fbb6d9de472e5edb8d6fb6b32a91cb266137892e , < ebe25d110717f6a3addba5232cd4a7dc1c76b628
(git)
cpe:2.3:a:hexpm:hex_core:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| hexpm | hex |
Affected:
2.1.0 , < 2.5.2
(semver)
cpe:2.3:a:hexpm:hex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| hexpm | hex |
Affected:
671f695ac548ed01f5828c2a739ecaa942b21007 , < d8b60eee97abb119d525306f048969a217d793a5
(git)
cpe:2.3:a:hexpm:hex:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2026-10-12 16:43
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CVE-2026-103060 (GCVE-0-2026-103060)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-12 15:43 – Updated: 2026-10-12 15:43
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Path traversal in rebar3 via unvalidated dependency app names
Summary
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in erlang rebar3 allows a malicious package publisher to delete a directory outside the project's _build directory and extract package files into it when a developer fetches dependencies.
A package release's dependencies in a Hex registry carry an app field that names the dependency's OTP application. rebar3 uses this field as the dependency's name without validating it (rebar_packages:parse_deps/1) and builds the dependency's directory from that name (rebar_app_utils:dep_to_app/7). rebar_fetch:download_source_online/2 deletes that directory with rm -rf and moves the fetched package into it. hex.pm didn't restrict the field to a directory name before 2026-10-12, so a publisher could set it to a value such as ../../../../target. When a project depends on such a release directly or transitively, rebar3 get-deps deletes the directory the name resolves to and writes the dependency's files there. This happens before the dependency's own rebar.config.script is evaluated, and get-deps compiles nothing.
This issue affects rebar3: from 3.7.0-rc1 before 3.27.2.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/security/advisor… | relatedvendor-advisory |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-103060.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-103060 | related |
| https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/commit/56b7d8897… | related |
| https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/commit/e35282b26… | patch |
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CVE-2026-65634 (GCVE-0-2026-65634)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-22 08:49 – Updated: 2026-09-24 20:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Superlinear CPU denial of service in Erlang/OTP ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER decoder
Summary
Inefficient algorithmic complexity in the Erlang/OTP asn1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER decoder allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service by sending a crafted OID during the TLS handshake.
The BER OID decoder asn1rtt_ber:dec_subidentifiers/3 in lib/asn1/src/asn1rtt_ber.erl and the equivalent PER helper asn1rtt_per_common:dec_subidentifiers/3 in lib/asn1/src/asn1rtt_per_common.erl accumulate a base-128 subidentifier into an unbounded integer using (Av bsl 7) + H per continuation byte. Each shift and addition on the growing accumulator is linear in the number of bits already accumulated, giving quadratic total work in the size of a single subidentifier. The JER helper asn1rtt_jer:json2oid/1 in lib/asn1/src/asn1rtt_jer.erl exhibits the same class of unbounded-integer parsing when decoding a dot-separated OID from JSON. A DER-encoded OBJECT IDENTIFIER with one very large arc (approximately 262 KB of continuation bytes) consumes roughly 13 seconds of CPU on typical hardware.
The vulnerable decoder is generated into every ASN.1 module that contains an OBJECT IDENTIFIER, including OTP-PUB-KEY which is reached during X.509 certificate parsing via public_key:pkix_decode_cert/2. This decoder runs before any signature or trust chain verification, so any Erlang service that parses peer TLS certificates is exposed: the default for TLS clients (which always parse the server certificate) and for mutual-TLS servers (which parse client certificates).
This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/asn1/src/asn1rtt_ber.erl, lib/asn1/src/asn1rtt_per_common.erl and lib/asn1/src/asn1rtt_jer.erl and program routines asn1rtt_ber:dec_subidentifiers/3, asn1rtt_per_common:dec_subidentifiers/3 and asn1rtt_jer:json2oid/1.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.18, OTP 28.5.0.7, and OTP 29.1.1, corresponding to asn1 from 3.0 before 5.3.4.3, 5.4.3.1, and 5.5.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to asn1 before 3.0, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-22 10:12 UTC
CWE
- CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | relatedvendor-advisory |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-65634.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-65634 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0fe2c02fdc06… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
17.0 , < *
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cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
3.0 , < *
(otp)
cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1 , < 0fe2c02fdc06fab1c63be9db1a7456993d20f838
(git)
Unaffected: 0fe2c02fdc06fab1c63be9db1a7456993d20f838 , < * (git) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Date Public
2026-09-22 08:49
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CVE-2026-68956 (GCVE-0-2026-68956)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-22 08:49 – Updated: 2026-09-24 20:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
SSH daemon allocates unbounded idle session channels, bypassing max_channels
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssh allows an authenticated remote attacker to exhaust node memory by repeatedly opening session channels that are never assigned a handler.
The "session" clause of ssh_connection:handle_msg/4 checks only minimal_remote_max_packet_size before calling setup_session/5, which unconditionally builds a #channel{} record and stores it in the ETS channel cache. The max_channels daemon option is consulted only by ssh_channel_sup:max_num_channels_not_exceeded/2, which counts supervisor children, so a channel that never gets a shell, exec, or subsystem handler is invisible to the limit and setting the option to a finite value does not mitigate the attack. RFC 4254 section 5.1 permits many session channels per connection, and each record costs only a few hundred bytes, so a single authenticated connection can accumulate channels until the node runs out of memory and the emulator terminates, affecting every application on it. No file contents, credentials, or write access are obtainable.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 18.1.2 before OTP 27.3.4.18, OTP 28.5.0.7, and OTP 29.1.1, corresponding to ssh from 4.1.1 before 5.2.11.13, 5.5.2.6, and 6.0.6. Whether OTP before OTP 18.1.2, corresponding to ssh before 4.1.1, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-22 10:12 UTC
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
3 products
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Affected:
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| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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Date Public
2026-09-22 08:49
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CVE-2026-89422 (GCVE-0-2026-89422)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-22 08:49 – Updated: 2026-09-22 13:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
TLS 1.3 client skips server authentication when ServerHello carries an unsolicited pre_shared_key extension
Summary
Key Exchange without Entity Authentication vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl allows a peer that answers a TLS 1.3 client connection to impersonate the intended server. A pre_shared_key extension in the ServerHello that the client never offered causes the client to complete the handshake without validating the server's certificate, so ssl:connect returns {ok, Socket} against a peer holding no certificate, no private key and no prior session.
tls_client_connection_1_3:handle_server_hello/2 passes the received extension to tls_gen_connection_1_3:handle_resumption/2, which sets resumption = true on its mere presence without checking that the client offered a PSK. tls_handshake_1_3:get_pre_shared_key/4 meanwhile falls back to the all-zero "no PSK" value and keys the handshake with the ordinary non-PSK schedule, so the attacker's own ephemeral key suffices. The resumption flag then routes maybe_resumption/1 straight to wait_finished, skipping the certificate-handling states, so certificate path validation, verify_fun, hostname verification, partial_chain, CRL checking and OCSP stapling are all bypassed. The default client configuration is affected; clients restricted to TLS 1.2 are not.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 22.2 before OTP 27.3.4.18, OTP 28.5.0.7, and OTP 29.1.1, corresponding to ssl from 9.5 before 11.2.12.13, 11.6.0.6, and 11.7.7.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-22 13:08 UTC
CWE
- CWE-322 - Key Exchange without Entity Authentication
Assigner
References
8 references
Impacted products
3 products
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CVE-2026-69664 (GCVE-0-2026-69664)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:59 – Updated: 2026-09-22 09:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
httpd parks a request worker indefinitely on a malformed chunk size sent after the headers
Summary
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending a request with a chunked body whose chunk-size line is not a hexadecimal number. The worker serving the connection is never released and no timeout reclaims it, so repeating the request across connections occupies every available worker and denies service to legitimate clients. No authentication is required and the default configuration is affected.
The chunk-size line must arrive in a write separate from the headers. When the body accompanies the headers, httpd_request_handler:handle_body/3 calls http_chunk:decode/3 inside a try ... catch throw:Error, so the {error, {chunk_size, _}} thrown by http_chunk:decode_size/4 is answered with 400 Bad Request. When the chunk size arrives later, the decoder is resumed through a bare catch in httpd_request_handler:handle_info/2, which converts the throw into a return value rather than raising it; the resulting error tuple is then treated as the next decoder continuation, the socket is re-armed, and the worker waits for data that never comes. The request timeout has already been cancelled at the point the headers were accepted, and the periodic byte-rate check is only armed when minimum_bytes_per_second is configured, which it is not by default.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 18.1.4 before OTP 27.3.4.17, OTP 28.5.0.6, and OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 6.0.3 before 9.3.2.7, 9.6.2.3, and 9.7.2.
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SSVC
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CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 17:44 UTC
CWE
- CWE-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
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8 references
Impacted products
3 products
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CVE-2026-70409 (GCVE-0-2026-70409)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:51 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:09
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
eldap does not bound the port component of a referral URL before integer conversion
Summary
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP eldap allows a malicious or compromised LDAP server to degrade availability by returning a referral URL whose port component is a very long run of digits.
eldap:parse_port/2 passes the port substring straight to list_to_integer/1 with no length bound. The surrounding try ... catch only rejects a value that fails to parse, so a syntactically valid port of up to roughly 1.26 million digits converts successfully and costs the caller hundreds of milliseconds of arbitrary-precision arithmetic per referral. The conversion function itself is documented to accept integers of any size, so bounding the input is the caller's responsibility. Reaching the flaw requires the application to pass a server-supplied referral to eldap:parse_ldap_url/1, which eldap never calls itself: referral strings are returned to the caller unparsed.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to eldap from 1.0.3 before 1.2.14.2, from 1.2.15 before 1.2.16.1, and from 1.3 before 1.3.1.
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SSVC
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CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 17:52 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1284 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Assigner
References
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| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
1.0.3 , < 1.2.14.2
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CVE-2026-70405 (GCVE-0-2026-70405)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:50 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
snmp BER INTEGER decoder applies no size limit to attacker-supplied integer fields
Summary
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP snmp allows a remote attacker to degrade availability by sending an SNMP message containing a BER INTEGER whose length field is arbitrarily large.
snmp_pdus:dec_integer_notag/1 defaults its size limit to infinity, and do_dec_integer_notag/2 then accumulates the value across every declared byte with a recursive shift and bitwise or. Work grows superlinearly in the declared length because each operation acts on a progressively larger bignum. The size-limited variant dec_integer_notag/2 exists but is reached from only one call site, dec_snmp_version/1, which bounds the version field to ten bytes; the request identifier, error status and index, generic and specific trap fields, engine boots and time, and every varbind value decoded by dec_value/1 all use the unbounded form. The decode runs before the PDU is processed, so no valid request is required beyond what the deployment demands to accept the message at all.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to snmp from 4.25.1 before 5.18.2.1, from 5.19 before 5.20.2.2, and from 5.20.3 before 5.20.5. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to snmp before 4.25.1, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 18:09 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1284 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-70405.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-70405 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d70… | patch |
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Impacted products
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| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 4.25.1
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
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84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1 , < *
(git)
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CVE-2026-66835 (GCVE-0-2026-66835)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:49 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
httpd mod_auth directory protection bypassed by a doubled slash in the request path
Summary
Path Equivalence vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read files inside a mod_auth protected directory by prefixing the request path with an extra slash.
httpd_request:validate_uri/1 normalises the request URI with uri_string:normalize/1, which performs RFC 3986 dot-segment removal but does not collapse empty path segments, so a doubled slash survives. mod_alias:real_name/3 concatenates the document root with that URI, and mod_auth:secret_path/3 then decides whether the result lies inside a protected directory block by running the configured directory path as an unanchored regular expression against it. The doubled slash breaks the contiguous substring the regex needs, so the request is treated as unprotected and no authentication challenge is issued, while mod_get opens the same path and the operating system collapses the doubled slash and returns the protected file. The same path mismatch also evades the per-path accounting in mod_security.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 17:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-50 - Path Equivalence: '//multiple/leading/slash'
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-66835.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-66835 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/bac19eb3dbd9… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/d8878dec0ece… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/9641944a2efb… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 5.10
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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CVE-2026-73270 (GCVE-0-2026-73270)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:48 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:09
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
httpd mod_auth directory protection bypassed by request path casing on case-insensitive filesystems
Summary
Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to read files inside a mod_auth protected directory by requesting them with different casing, on deployments whose filesystem is case-insensitive.
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:58 UTC
CWE
- CWE-178 - Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
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| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
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Impacted products
3 products
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|---|---|---|---|
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Unknown:
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
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|
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CVE-2026-75538 (GCVE-0-2026-75538)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:48 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
A Signed Length Overflow in Erlang/OTP's inet TCP Driver Overflows the Receive Buffer Into BEAM VM Memory From an Unauthenticated Peer
Summary
An attacker that connects to an open Erlang TCP port that uses the inet driver with {packet,4} mode can use a signed overflow in an incorrect packet length calculation to overflow the receive buffer into the VM allocator area and beyond up to about 2 GB.
This would easily trash the allocated block's allocator metadata footer, and the next block, if any, and most likely cause the BEAM VM to crash. Utilizing this with precision enough to achieve Remote Code Execution would be extremely unfeasible.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to erts from 6.0 before 15.2.7.13, from 16.0 before 16.4.0.6, and from 17.0 before 17.0.6. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to erts before 6.0, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:58 UTC
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisory |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-75538.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-75538 | related |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/08e8efdba850… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 6.0
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CVE-2026-74994 (GCVE-0-2026-74994)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:45 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
inets, httpd: Authentication Bypass via Directory Namespace Collapse in httpd mod_auth
Summary
The mod_auth module in OTP's inets httpd server, when configured with dets or mnesia authentication backends and multiple directory configuration blocks, collapses all directory blocks into a single shared user/group namespace. A user added to one protected directory is accepted as valid for all other protected directories on the same server instance.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:57 UTC
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 5.10
(otp)
Affected: 5.10 , < 9.3.2.7 (otp) Affected: 9.4 , < 9.6.2.3 (otp) Affected: 9.7 , < 9.7.2 (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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CVE-2026-74835 (GCVE-0-2026-74835)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:45 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
inets,httpd: Memory Exhaustion via Unenforced max_body_size During Chunked Body Reception
Summary
The inets application HTTP server httpd fails to enforce a configured body-size limit on chunked request.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 5.10
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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CVE-2026-73812 (GCVE-0-2026-73812)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:42 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
inets, httpd: HTTP Request Smuggling via Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length
Summary
httpd function check_header/3 rejects duplicate Content-Length (per CVE-2026-23941) but never checks for the TE+CL co-presence that RFC 9112 §6.3 identifies as a probable smuggling attempt. handle_body/3 frames by chunked and silently discards Content-Length. A CL-preferring front-end paired with chunked-preferring inets creates a classic CL.TE front-end/back-end desync.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:56 UTC
CWE
- CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisory |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-73812.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-73812 | related |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/591dc00dc99d… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 5.10
(otp)
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|
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Affected:
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(git)
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CVE-2026-73276 (GCVE-0-2026-73276)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:41 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
inets, httpd: HTTP Request Smuggling via Whitespace-Before-Colon Header Dropping i
Summary
Gracefulness code ignored cases that should be rejected, resulting in possible HTTP Request Smuggling opportunities.
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
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Affected:
22.2 , < 27.3.4.17
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
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(git)
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CVE-2026-66357 (GCVE-0-2026-66357)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:40 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
inets,httpd:HTTP Request Smuggling via obs-fold Header Continuation
Summary
httpd has never implemented obs-fold (RFC 2616 §2.2 / RFC 7230 §3.2.4 header continuation lines). Every CRLF followed by a non-CRLF octet unconditionally starts a new header. This missing feature became a security concern as the understanding of HTTP request smuggling attacks evolved.
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Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:56 UTC
CWE
- CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 5.10
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Affected:
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CVE-2026-59696 (GCVE-0-2026-59696)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:37 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
uri_string does not bound the port component of a URI before integer conversion
Summary
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 OTP 21.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:54 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1284 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Assigner
References
6 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisory |
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| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-59696 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d70… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e3be1cfe9f6c… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
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|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
21.0 , < 27.3.4.17
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
3.5 , < 6.2.2.5
(otp)
Affected: 7.0 , < 7.3.0.2 (otp) Affected: 8.0 , < 8.0.4 (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
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CVE-2026-55951 (GCVE-0-2026-55951)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:37 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
httpc memory exhaustion via unbounded response header accumulation
Summary
The Erlang/OTP httpc HTTP client does not enforce a limit on the total size of response headers received from a server. The max_header_size option defaults to nolimit, and httpc_response:parse_headers/6 accumulates every header into a list before the length check runs (which only fires after the terminating CRLF CRLF is received).
A malicious or compromised HTTP server can send an arbitrarily large number of headers, or headers with very large values, causing the client process to allocate unbounded memory until the system runs out of memory or the BEAM VM crashes. A proof-of-concept server sending 100,000 headers of roughly 4000 bytes each caused the client VM to allocate over 13 GB of memory in under 30 seconds.
Any application using httpc:request/4,5 to connect to untrusted servers is affected. No authentication is required: any server the client connects to (including via a redirect or man-in-the-middle) can trigger the exhaustion.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:53 UTC
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisory |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-55951.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-55951 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d70… | patch |
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Impacted products
3 products
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| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 5.10
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
84adefa331c4159d432d22840663c38f155cd4c1 , < *
(git)
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CVE-2026-71380 (GCVE-0-2026-71380)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:35 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:09
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
httpd applies no timeout while receiving a request body, parking a worker on a stalled client
Summary
Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by sending valid request headers with a large Content-Length and then stalling before the body is complete.
httpd_request_handler:handle_info/2 cancels the request timeout as soon as a parse step succeeds, which includes the headers, and the clause that handles a decoder asking for more data re-arms the socket with {active, once} without setting any further timer. httpd_request:whole_body/2 returns such a continuation whenever the bytes received are fewer than the announced Content-Length, so a well-formed request that stops mid-body leaves the worker waiting indefinitely. The periodic byte-rate check that would reclaim it is armed only when minimum_bytes_per_second is configured, which it is not by default. Repeating this across connections occupies every worker permitted by max_clients and denies service to legitimate clients at negligible bandwidth cost.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:52 UTC
CWE
- CWE-772 - Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-71380.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-71380 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/81b453aac5a0… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
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| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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CVE-2026-71562 (GCVE-0-2026-71562)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:33 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:09
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
httpc does not bound server-supplied numeric header values before integer conversion
Summary
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.
httpc_handler.erl converts the server-supplied Content-Length with list_to_integer/1 before comparing it against max_body_size, so the size check cannot protect the conversion, and the option defaults to nolimit in any case. The same unbounded conversion appears in httpc_response:format_response/1 for Content-Length and in httpc_response:get_ms_from_retry_after/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, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to inets before 5.10, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:53 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1284 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-71562.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-71562 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d70… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e3be1cfe9f6c… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
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| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
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|
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CVE-2026-70399 (GCVE-0-2026-70399)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 14:33 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
httpd does not enforce the documented default max_clients connection limit
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP inets httpd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause denial of service by opening and holding open a large number of connections. The max_clients option is documented to default to 150, and the inets hardening guide presents that limit as the first layer of denial-of-service defence, but a server that does not set it explicitly accepts an unlimited number of simultaneous connections. Establishing the connections is sufficient; no valid request and no authentication are required.
The accept gate in httpd_manager:handle_new_connection/4 reads the option with httpd_util:lookup/2, which returns undefined when the key is absent, rather than the three-argument form carrying the 150 default that the neighbouring get_ustate/2 uses. Erlang term ordering places every integer before every atom, so the Count =< Max guard holds for any connection count and the server never returns {reject, busy}. Each accepted connection occupies a worker process and a socket for as long as it is held, driving the node towards process, memory and file descriptor exhaustion. Servers that set max_clients explicitly are unaffected, because a configured value is applied as intended.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.17, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.6, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to inets from 5.10 before 9.3.2.7, from 9.4 before 9.6.2.3, and from 9.7 before 9.7.2.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-01 15:52 UTC
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-70399.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-70399 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/d94a94c96eb4… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/6746dc4e1df5… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e0050fc00c50… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
17.0 , < 27.3.4.17
(otp)
Affected: 28.0 , < 28.5.0.6 (otp) Affected: 29.0 , < 29.0.6 (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
5.10 , < 9.3.2.7
(otp)
Affected: 9.4 , < 9.6.2.3 (otp) Affected: 9.7 , < 9.7.2 (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
d9674f32811cd5bb02b0d6656053b5ee226bc74c , < *
(git)
cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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CVE-2026-54890 (GCVE-0-2026-54890)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 15:39 – Updated: 2026-07-28 09:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
BEAM VM crash via integer underflow in binary_to_term BIT_BINARY_EXT decoding
Summary
Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp (erts modules), erlang otp erts (erts modules) allows Forced Integer Overflow, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files erts/emulator/beam/external.c, emulator/beam/external.c.
The BIT_BINARY_EXT tag (77) handler in the External Term Format (ETF) decoder accepts an encoding with both length and trailing-bits fields set to zero. The subsequent computation of the bitstring size underflows an unsigned integer, producing a value of roughly 2^64 that is then passed as a memory allocation size. The allocator aborts the entire node with a message such as "Cannot allocate 2305843009213693951 bytes of memory (of type binary)".
The crash is a VM-level abort, not an Erlang-level exception. It cannot be intercepted by supervision trees, by try/catch, or by passing the [safe] option to binary_to_term/2 (which only restricts atom creation and does not perform structural validation of binary encodings).
Any application that decodes ETF from untrusted sources via binary_to_term/1,2 or enif_binary_to_term() is exposed. The Erlang distribution protocol also decodes incoming terms through the same code path, but distribution is expected to run on trusted networks per the OTP Secure Coding Guidelines (DSG-011).
This issue affects OTP from OTP 27.0 before OTP 29.0.4, OTP 28.5.0.4 and OTP 27.3.4.15, corresponding to erts from 15.0 before 17.0.4, 16.4.0.4 and 15.2.7.11.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 18:18 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-54890.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-54890 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
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Impacted products
2 products
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CVE-2026-59251 (GCVE-0-2026-59251)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 15:30 – Updated: 2026-07-28 09:54
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EPSS
VEX
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Denial of service via exponential certificate policy tree growth in path validation
Summary
Allocation of resources without limits in Erlang/OTP public_key certificate path validation allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service by sending a crafted X.509 certificate chain during the TLS handshake.
During RFC 5280 policy processing in public_key:pkix_path_validation/3, the certificate policy tree maintained by pubkey_policy_tree grows without an upper bound. When a certificate chain contains M policies per certificate and K certificates, the tree grows on the order of M^K nodes because pubkey_policy_tree:add_leaves/2 and pubkey_policy_tree:add_leaf_siblings/2 extend the tree per policy per certificate. A modest chain with many policies per certificate is enough to pin BEAM schedulers and exhaust the node's memory, taking down the entire VM. The attacker only needs to be able to present a certificate chain to the victim, which is the normal precondition for a TLS handshake, so exploitation succeeds against any incoming or outgoing TLS connection that validates the peer's chain (the default for SSL/TLS clients and mutual-TLS servers).
This is the same vulnerability class as OpenSSL's X509_verify_cert policy tree DoS.
This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/public_key/src/pubkey_policy_tree.erl and program routines pubkey_policy_tree:add_leaves/2 and pubkey_policy_tree:add_leaf_siblings/2.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 26.2 before OTP 29.0.4, OTP 28.5.0.4 and OTP 27.3.4.15, corresponding to public_key from 1.15 before 1.21.4, 1.20.3.4 and 1.17.1.5.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
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Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 18:31 UTC
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
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| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/f8580fc11709… | patch |
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CVE-2026-59250 (GCVE-0-2026-59250)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 15:25 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Megaco flex scanner buffer overflow via oversized property parm name
Summary
Classic buffer overflow in the Erlang/OTP megaco flex scanner C driver allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to corrupt the driver's memory (and potentially achieve remote code execution or a denial-of-service crash) by sending a single text-encoded H.248/Megaco message containing an oversized property parm name.
When tokenizing a Local/Remote descriptor, mfs_load_property_groups extracts the attacker-controlled property name (bounded only by the message length) and, when no value follows, formats it into a fixed 512-byte error_msg field of the MfsErlDrvData struct using an unchecked sprintf call. Names longer than roughly 452 bytes overflow into the immediately following struct fields (text_buf, text_ptr, term_spec, term_spec_size, term_spec_index), overwriting live pointers and counters with attacker-chosen bytes. Subsequent scanner code writes and frees through the corrupted pointers, producing arbitrary write and arbitrary free primitives inside the BEAM VM process, which can be leveraged for remote code execution. On builds compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE the overflow is detected at runtime and terminates the process with SIGABRT, resulting in denial of service.
The overflow occurs in the flex scanner before any grammar or Megaco-level authentication processing, so exploitation requires only network reachability to the megaco transport port on a node configured with {scanner, flex}.
This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/megaco/src/flex/megaco_flex_scanner_drv.flex.src and program routines mfs_load_property_groups.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.15, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.4, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.4, corresponding to megaco from 3.17.1 before 4.7.2.2, from 4.8 before 4.8.3.1, and from 4.9 before 4.9.1. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to megaco before 3.17.1, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 18:33 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
5 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-59250.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-59250 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/8704c8f550a1… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
Affected: 17.0 , < 27.3.4.15 (otp) Affected: 28.0 , < 28.5.0.4 (otp) Affected: 29.0 , < 29.0.4 (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 3.17.1
(otp)
Affected: 3.17.1 , < 4.7.2.2 (otp) Affected: 4.8 , < 4.8.3.1 (otp) Affected: 4.9 , < 4.9.1 (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
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CVE-2026-55953 (GCVE-0-2026-55953)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 15:21 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
TLS 1.2 and DTLS client accepts unoffered anonymous cipher suite, bypassing server authentication
Summary
The Erlang/OTP ssl TLS 1.2 (and earlier) and DTLS client does not verify that the cipher suite selected by the server in ServerHello was among the suites offered by the client in ClientHello. The client-side tls_handshake:hello/5 handler validates the negotiated protocol version and the downgrade sentinel but hands the server-chosen suite directly to ssl_handshake:handle_server_hello_extensions/9, which installs it without a membership check. The TLS 1.3 client path performs this check (per RFC 8446), so it is not affected.
An on-path attacker between the client and the intended server can respond with a ServerHello selecting an anonymous key exchange suite such as TLS_DH_anon_* or TLS_ECDH_anon_* that the client never offered. Anonymous suites do not require the server to present a certificate, so the entire verify_peer and cacerts configuration is bypassed: the attacker completes the handshake with its own ephemeral parameters, no certificate is validated, no hostname is checked, and ssl:connect returns {ok, Socket}. All subsequent application traffic is readable and modifiable by the attacker.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.15, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.4, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.4, corresponding to ssl from 5.3.4 before 11.2.12.11, from 11.3 before 11.6.0.4, and from 11.7 before 11.7.4. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to ssl before 5.3.4, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 18:33 UTC
CWE
- CWE-757 - Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade')
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-55953.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-55953 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/064e23641461… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0a82596d425a… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e6ff938116b2… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 5.3.4
(otp)
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|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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CVE-2026-55737 (GCVE-0-2026-55737)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 15:13 – Updated: 2026-07-28 09:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Heap pointer corruption via signed/unsigned mismatch in LARGE_TUPLE_EXT decoding in erts external term format decoder
Summary
Signed to Unsigned Conversion Error and Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts allows an attacker who can supply a crafted Erlang external term format (ETF) binary to binary_to_term/1 to corrupt the BEAM heap pointer and crash the virtual machine.
When decoding a LARGE_TUPLE_EXT term, the validation pass decoded_size() in erts/emulator/beam/external.c reads the 32-bit arity field as unsigned (get_uint32()), while the decode pass dec_term() reads the same field as a signed 32-bit integer (get_int32()) into an int. An arity wire value of 0x80000000 passes validation as 2147483648 but decodes as -2147483648, so the subsequent hp += n moves the heap allocation pointer backward. Neither pass enforces the runtime tuple-arity limit MAX_ARITYVAL. The result is an out-of-bounds heap write; in practice the VM detects an impossible heap size and aborts, denying service. The required padding is large when uncompressed but the compressed-ETF envelope shrinks it to a small payload on the wire.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 25.0 before OTP 29.0.4, OTP 28.5.0.4 and OTP 27.3.4.15, corresponding to erts from 13.0 before 17.0.4, 16.4.0.4 and 15.2.7.11.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 18:34 UTC
Assigner
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| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-55737.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-55737 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/c5210b42a9d3… | patch |
Impacted products
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CVE-2026-47078 (GCVE-0-2026-47078)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 15:03 – Updated: 2026-09-24 20:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Relative path traversal in zip:unzip/zip:extract via check_dir_level depth-counter bypass
Summary
Relative Path Traversal vulnerability in Erlang OTP (stdlib zip module) allows writing files outside the intended extraction directory via a crafted zip archive.
zip:unzip/1,2 and zip:extract/1,2 validate entry paths using zip:check_dir_level/2, which tracks directory depth as a running integer counter: .. decrements it, normal path components increment it. The caller rejects only paths where the final counter value is less than zero. A path such as ../x/y causes the counter to go negative mid-traversal then recover to zero, passing validation while resolving to a location outside the extraction directory when joined with the current working directory via add_cwd.
This vulnerability is associated with program file lib/stdlib/src/zip.erl.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 27.1 before OTP 27.3.4.15, OTP 28.5.0.4, and OTP 29.0.4, corresponding to stdlib from 6.1 before 6.2.2.4, 7.3.0.1, and 8.0.3.
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SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 18:38 UTC
CWE
- CWE-23 - Relative Path Traversal
Assigner
References
6 references
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Impacted products
3 products
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Affected:
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| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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| Erlang | OTP |
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2026-07-27 15:03
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CVE-2026-42792 (GCVE-0-2026-42792)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 14:58 – Updated: 2026-07-28 09:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
epmd permanent DoS via EMFILE on accept(2) in erts
Summary
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts (epmd) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (epmd) via connection slot exhaustion.
The do_accept function in erts/epmd/src/epmd_srv.c calls epmd_cleanup_exit() when accept(2) returns EMFILE (per-process file descriptor limit reached) or ENFILE (system-wide file descriptor limit reached), rather than treating these as recoverable conditions. An attacker can exhaust epmd's file descriptor slots by holding many TCP connections open while periodically sending a single byte to reset the idle timeout, then causing accept(2) to return EMFILE, which kills the daemon. epmd has no per-source-IP connection cap, making the attack feasible from a single source.
On Debian/Ubuntu default packaging the impact is amplified: the systemd unit inherits a low file descriptor soft limit, and repeated daemon deaths trigger systemd's start-rate-limit, permanently failing both epmd.service and epmd.socket and requiring manual operator intervention to recover.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 29.0.4, OTP 28.5.0.4 and OTP 27.3.4.15.
Severity
SSVC
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Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 17:25 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
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| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/865d203e4a6a… | patch |
Impacted products
2 products
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CVE-2026-58227 (GCVE-0-2026-58227)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-27 14:39 – Updated: 2026-07-28 09:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
TLS/DTLS denial of service via unbounded recursion on cross-signed peer certificate chain
Summary
The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not detect cycles when reconstructing an incomplete peer certificate chain during a TLS or DTLS handshake. In ssl_certificate:handle_incomplete_chain/5, the received chain is passed to ssl_certificate:build_certificate_chain/5, which walks issuer relationships via ssl_certificate:do_certificate_chain/7 with no cycle detection and no depth limit. When the peer supplies two mutually cross-signed certificates in unordered form (A issues B, B issues A), the issuer lookup alternates between the two certificates and the pair of functions recurses indefinitely, growing the call stack and chain accumulator without bound.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted certificate chain in a TLS or DTLS Certificate handshake message to exhaust available memory and crash the BEAM node. Only a TCP connection and a partial handshake are required; no authentication or completed handshake is needed, and both TLS/DTLS servers and clients are affected when processing peer certificate messages.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 23.2 before OTP 29.0.4, OTP 28.5.0.4 and OTP 27.3.4.15, corresponding to ssl from 10.2 before 11.7.4, 11.6.0.4 and 11.2.12.11.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-27 17:25 UTC
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
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| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-58227.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-58227 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0307bff2c72b… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/241d43703989… | patch |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/7db647201779… | patch |
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CVE-2026-54891 (GCVE-0-2026-54891)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-02 16:06 – Updated: 2026-09-08 01:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Plaintext APPLICATION_DATA injected during TLS handshake delivered to client application post-handshake in ssl
Summary
Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl (tls_gen_connection module) allows a network-positioned attacker to inject unauthenticated plaintext that the TLS client application later treats as authenticated server data.
The function tls_gen_connection:handle_protocol_record/3 rejects APPLICATION_DATA records that arrive in pre-handshake states when the TLS endpoint acts as a server, but does not apply the same check when the endpoint acts as a client. A network-positioned attacker can send plaintext APPLICATION_DATA records to the client during the handshake. The records are buffered and, once the handshake completes successfully, delivered to the application as if they were authenticated post-handshake data. The attacker cannot observe the client's response or steer the connection, so the impact is limited to blind injection of unauthenticated bytes. The injection window is wider for TLS versions prior to TLS 1.3 than for TLS 1.3.
This vulnerability is associated with program file lib/ssl/src/tls_gen_connection.erl.
TLS 1.3 is affected starting with OTP 22.0, when TLS 1.3 support was added.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 before OTP 27.3.4.14, from OTP 28.0 before OTP 28.5.0.3, and from OTP 29.0 before OTP 29.0.3, corresponding to ssl from 5.3.4 before 11.2.12.10, from 11.3 before 11.6.0.3, and from 11.7 before 11.7.3. Whether OTP before OTP 17.0, corresponding to ssl before 5.3.4, is affected is unknown.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-02 17:24 UTC
CWE
- CWE-924 - Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories… | vendor-advisoryrelated |
| https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-54891.html | related |
| https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-54891 | related |
| https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#o… | x_version-scheme |
| https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/07d2d0e93f6a… | patch |
Impacted products
3 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 17.0
(otp)
Affected: 17.0 , < 27.3.4.14 (otp) Affected: 28.0 , < 28.5.0.3 (otp) Affected: 29.0 , < 29.0.3 (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
Unknown:
0 , < 5.3.4
(otp)
Affected: 5.3.4 , < 11.2.12.10 (otp) Affected: 11.3 , < 11.6.0.3 (otp) Affected: 11.7 , < 11.7.3 (otp) cpe:2.3:a:erlang:erlang\/otp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
|
| Erlang | OTP |
Affected:
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(git)
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