CVE-2026-59696 PUBLISHED

uri_string does not bound the port component of a URI before integer conversion

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 06.07.2026 Published: 01.09.2026 Updated: 01.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor Erlang
Product OTP
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 21.0 to 27.3.4.17 (excl.)
  • affected from 28.0 to 28.5.0.6 (excl.)
  • affected from 29.0 to 29.0.6 (excl.)
Vendor Erlang
Product OTP
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3.5 to 6.2.2.5 (excl.)
  • affected from 7.0 to 7.3.0.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 8.0 to 8.0.4 (excl.)
Vendor Erlang
Product OTP
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 29a9dd0e17a97a3e6e46f0d08c6ba8f31db33f5e to * (excl.)

Credits

  • Eric Meadows-Jönsson finder
  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF finder
  • Peter Ullrich finder
  • José Valim finder
  • Konrad Pietrzak / Ericsson remediation developer
  • Ingela Anderton Andin analyst
  • Dan Gudmundsson analyst
  • John Högberg analyst
  • Rickard Green analyst

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-1284 Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads