CVE-2026-49762

NameCVE-2026-49762
DescriptionUncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Elixir standard library's Version module allows an attacker who controls a version string to cause a denial of service through CPU and memory exhaustion. The version parser converts numeric version components (major, minor, patch and numeric pre-release/build identifiers) to integers without bounding their length. A single large all-digit component therefore forces a super-linear, non-yielding base-10 to arbitrary-precision integer conversion (String.to_integer/1, i.e. :erlang.binary_to_integer/1) that pins a BEAM scheduler, and a larger component raises an uncaught SystemLimitError that crashes the calling process. A single moderately sized string (around one megabyte) is enough; no authentication is required. This is reachable from the public entry points Version.parse/1, Version.parse!/1, Version.match?/3, Version.compare/2, and Version.parse_requirement/1, which applications routinely call on untrusted input such as HTTP parameters, dependency-manifest fields, and package metadata. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/version.ex and program routines 'Elixir.Version.Parser':parse_digits/2. This issue affects Elixir: from 1.5.0 before 1.20.1.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
elixir-lang (PTS)bullseye1.10.3.dfsg-1.1vulnerable
bookworm1.14.0.dfsg-2vulnerable
trixie1.18.3.dfsg-1vulnerable
forky1.18.3.dfsg-2vulnerable
sid1.20.1.dfsg-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
elixir-langsource(unstable)1.20.1.dfsg-1

Notes

[trixie] - elixir-lang <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - elixir-lang <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - elixir-lang <postponed> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/security/advisories/GHSA-w2h8-8x3g-278p
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-49762.html
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-49762
Fixed by: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/c64417d72fd5c7d09e963ca3ac5fa2b140978d9e (main)
Fixed by: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/64e6707233464c3e55a9ca6b44019aed25b0390a (v1.20.1)

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