CVE-2026-115274
Published:October 30, 2026
Updated:October 30, 2026
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in the Elixir standard library's JSON module allows an unauthenticated attacker who supplies a JSON document to cause a denial of service through CPU and memory exhaustion.
JSON.decode/1 and JSON.decode!/1 convert each integer literal with erlang:binary_to_integer/1 and do not bound its length. A literal of one million digits decodes successfully but costs 100 to 300 times as much CPU as a string of the same length, so one request body of a few megabytes holds a scheduler for about a second. A literal of more than about 1.29 million digits raises SystemLimitError. Applications generated by phx.new decode request bodies with JSON in Plug.Parsers, before routing and authentication.
This issue affects elixir: from 1.18.0-rc.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.
Affected Packages
elixir (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=1.20.0 <1.20.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.20.5elixir (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=1.18.0 <1.19.7 || >=1.19.0 <1.19.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 1.19.7https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.19.0-rc.0 <v1.19.7 || >=v1.19.1 <v1.19.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.19.7https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.18.0-rc.0 <v1.18.6 || >=v1.18.1 <v1.18.6Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.18.6https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.20.0-rc.0 <v1.20.5 || >=v1.20.1 <v1.20.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.20.5Related Resources (8)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input