Medium severity · published Sep 1, 2026
CVE-2026-59696
uri_string does not bound the port component of a URI before integer conversion
6.9
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 53% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OT
OTP · Erlang
21.0 before 27.3.4.17; 28.0 before 28.5.0.6; 29.0 before 29.0.6; 3.5 before 6.2.2.5; 7.0 before 7.3.0.2; 8.0 before 8.0.4; +1 more · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59696
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59696
cna.erlef.org
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-59696.html
github.com
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/aba0fe8c2d700bf4ac94607cf7f00e53bbe4042d
github.com
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e3be1cfe9f6cedd0cd20d9905e05601dfb31c8aa
github.com
https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-8qw4-2chm-mvj2
osv.dev
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-59696
www.erlang.org
https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
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