CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-70409

MediumCVSS 6.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.42%

35th percentile - higher than 35% of all known CVEs

Summary

The eldap module in Erlang/OTP has an improper validation of specified quantity vulnerability. A malicious or compromised LDAP server can degrade availability by returning a referral URL with a very long port, causing expensive integer conversion.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause CPU exhaustion in the client process, leading to performance degradation and potential denial of service.

Recommendation

Update OTP to version 27.3.4.17, 28.5.0.6, or 29.0.6 (or later) and consider limiting port length in URL processing.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input vulnerability in Erlang/OTP eldap allows a malicious or compromised LDAP server to degrade availability by returning a referral URL whose port component is a very long run of digits. eldap:parse_port/2 passes the port substring straight to list_to_integer/1 with no length bound. The surrounding try ... catch only rejects a value that fails to parse, so a syntactically valid port of up to roughly 1.26 million digits converts successfully and costs the caller hundreds of milliseconds of arbitrary-precision arithmetic per referral. The conversion function itself is documented to accept integers of any size, so bounding the input is the caller's responsibility. Reaching the flaw requires the application to pass a server-supplied referral to eldap:parse_ldap_url/1, which eldap never calls itself: referral strings are returned to the caller unparsed. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 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 eldap from 1.0.3 before 1.2.14.2, from 1.2.15 before 1.2.16.1, and from 1.3 before 1.3.1.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS