FKIE_CVE-2026-53423

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-06-11 12:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:57
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in membraneframework membrane_mp4_plugin allows unauthenticated denial-of-service via BEAM atom table exhaustion. The MP4 box header parser converts each 4-byte box name to an atom using String.to_atom/1 without validation. 'Elixir.Membrane.MP4.Container.Header':parse_box_name/1 in lib/membrane_mp4/container/header.ex interns every box name encountered while 'Elixir.Membrane.MP4.Container.Header':parse/1 walks the input. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected, so each unique attacker-controlled 4-byte name is a permanent allocation. A crafted MP4 of approximately 8 MB containing roughly 1.1 million boxes with distinct non-standard names exhausts the atom table (default ceiling around 1,048,576 atoms), aborting the entire BEAM node and taking down all applications running on it. This issue affects membrane_mp4_plugin from 0.3.0 before 0.36.7.
References
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-53423.html
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://github.com/membraneframework/membrane_mp4_plugin/commit/56373d1ddc86968e55fbde795c14eeba24357b57
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://github.com/membraneframework/membrane_mp4_plugin/security/advisories/GHSA-43hj-fxwj-49qw
6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49dbhttps://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-53423
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/membraneframework/membrane_mp4_plugin/security/advisories/GHSA-43hj-fxwj-49qw
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          ],
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          "packageURL": "pkg:hex/membrane_mp4_plugin",
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          "programFiles": [
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          ],
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            {
              "name": "\u0027Elixir.Membrane.MP4.Container.Header\u0027:parse/1"
            },
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            }
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  "id": "CVE-2026-53423",
  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T10:57:54.680",
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          "exploitMaturity": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "integrityRequirement": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "modifiedAttackComplexity": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "modifiedAttackRequirements": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "modifiedAttackVector": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "modifiedPrivilegesRequired": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
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          "modifiedSubIntegrityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED",
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