CVE-2026-109821

Unbounded port parsing in URI.parse/1 enables CPU exhaustion denial of service in Elixir

MEDIUM

6.3

CVSS Score

Published: October 30, 2026 at 08:54 AM UTC

Updated: October 30, 2026 at 07:39 PM UTC

1 product affected across 1 vendorElixir

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Severity

MEDIUM6.3

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.5%

SSVC

PoC

Description

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.to_integer/1 in split_authority/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.to_string/1, inspect/1, logging, error formatting) converts the bignum with :erlang.integer_to_binary/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.