FKIE_CVE-2026-48853
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-15 23:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:55
Severity
Summary
Deserialization of Untrusted Data and Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerabilities in elixir-grpc grpc allow unauthenticated attackers to crash the BEAM node via atom table exhaustion and, when a decoded term flows into a call site that invokes it, achieve remote code execution on the server.
'Elixir.GRPC.Codec.Erlpack':decode/2 (lib/grpc/codec/erlpack.ex) calls :erlang.binary_to_term/1 on the raw gRPC message body without the :safe option, no size bound, and no type guard. Any unauthenticated peer that sends a request with Content-Type: application/grpc+erlpack can send a crafted payload that mints arbitrary new atoms (which are never garbage-collected, exhausting the bounded atom table and crashing the VM) or that encodes a fun term which, if applied anywhere downstream, executes attacker-controlled code inside the server process.
This issue affects grpc from 0.4.0 before 1.0.0.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version |
|---|
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{
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"cpe:2.3:a:elixir-grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
],
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"\u0027Elixir.GRPC.Codec.Erlpack\u0027"
],
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"packageURL": "pkg:hex/grpc",
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}
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}
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"value": "Deserialization of Untrusted Data and Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerabilities in elixir-grpc grpc allow unauthenticated attackers to crash the BEAM node via atom table exhaustion and, when a decoded term flows into a call site that invokes it, achieve remote code execution on the server.\n\n\u0027Elixir.GRPC.Codec.Erlpack\u0027:decode/2 (lib/grpc/codec/erlpack.ex) calls :erlang.binary_to_term/1 on the raw gRPC message body without the :safe option, no size bound, and no type guard. Any unauthenticated peer that sends a request with Content-Type: application/grpc+erlpack can send a crafted payload that mints arbitrary new atoms (which are never garbage-collected, exhausting the bounded atom table and crashing the VM) or that encodes a fun term which, if applied anywhere downstream, executes attacker-controlled code inside the server process.\n\nThis issue affects grpc from 0.4.0 before 1.0.0."
}
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"id": "CVE-2026-48853",
"lastModified": "2026-06-17T10:55:18.207",
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}
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