CVE-2026-59696

NameCVE-2026-59696
DescriptionImproper 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.
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Debian Bugs1146603

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
erlang (PTS)bookworm1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u4vulnerable
bookworm (security)1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1vulnerable
trixie (security), trixie1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u3vulnerable
forky1:29.0.4+dfsg-1vulnerable
sid1:29.0.6+dfsg-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
erlangsource(unstable)1:29.0.6+dfsg-11146603

Notes

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
Fixed by: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e3be1cfe9f6cedd0cd20d9905e05601dfb31c8aa (OTP-29.0.6, OTP-28.5.0.6)
Fixed by: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d700bf4ac94607cf7f00e53bbe4042d (OTP-27.3.4.17)

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