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CVE-2026-93471 (GCVE-0-2026-93471)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-22 06:59 – Updated: 2026-10-22 06:59

Title

Unbounded SAML message decompression in esaml allows memory exhaustion

Summary

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in esaml_binding in dropbox esaml allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust server memory and crash the Erlang VM via a crafted compressed SAMLResponse. esaml_binding:decode_response/2 base64-decodes the attacker-supplied SAMLResponse, inflates it with zlib:unzip/1 with no bound on the output, then converts the result to a charlist with binary_to_list/1 before parsing. This runs on the SAML consume (ACS) and single-logout endpoints, which accept unauthenticated requests by design, and it runs before any signature check. A small deflate stream reaches a compression ratio near 1000 to 1, so a request body of tens of kilobytes inflates to hundreds of megabytes and then to several gigabytes of list heap, so a few requests exhaust memory and take the node down. This issue affects esaml: from 0.1.0 onward.

Severity

8.7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Assigner

EEF CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard A 96/100 over 318 records in the last 180 days details

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-93471.html	relatedthird-party-advisory
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-93471	related
https://github.com/handnot2/esaml/commit/deeb8437…	related
https://github.com/arekinath/esaml/commit/deeb843…	related
https://github.com/dropbox/esaml/commit/deeb84378…	relatedbroken-link

Impacted products

4 products

Vendor	Product	Version
handnot2	esaml	Affected: deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca14a , < * (git) cpe:2.3:a:handnot2:esaml::::::::
arekinath	esaml	Affected: deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca14a , < * (git) cpe:2.3:a:arekinath:esaml::::::::
dropbox	esaml	Affected: 0.1.0 , < * (semver) cpe:2.3:a:dropbox:esaml::::::::
dropbox	esaml	Affected: deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca14a , < * (git) cpe:2.3:a:dropbox:esaml::::::::

Credits

Quinn Wilton Jonatan Männchen / EEF Jonatan Männchen / EEF

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FKIE_CVE-2026-93471

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-22 09:17 - Updated: 2026-10-22 16:58

Severity

8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-93471.html
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/arekinath/esaml/commit/deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca14a
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/dropbox/esaml/commit/deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca14a
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://github.com/handnot2/esaml/commit/deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca14a
	6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db	https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-93471

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-3GV4-V3M4-W3VP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-22 09:31 – Updated: 2026-10-22 09:31

Details

esaml_binding:decode_response/2 base64-decodes the attacker-supplied SAMLResponse, inflates it with zlib:unzip/1 with no bound on the output, then converts the result to a charlist with binary_to_list/1 before parsing. This runs on the SAML consume (ACS) and single-logout endpoints, which accept unauthenticated requests by design, and it runs before any signature check. A small deflate stream reaches a compression ratio near 1000 to 1, so a request body of tens of kilobytes inflates to hundreds of megabytes and then to several gigabytes of list heap, so a few requests exhaust memory and take the node down.

This issue affects esaml: from 0.1.0 onward.

Severity

8.7 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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  ],
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  "modified": "2026-10-22T09:31:48Z",
  "published": "2026-10-22T09:31:48Z",
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