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CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ericmj decimal allows unauthenticated remote Denial of Service.
The decimal library does not bound the exponent on parsed input. Storing a decimal with a very large exponent (e.g. Decimal.new("1e1000000000")) is accepted without error. Subsequent calls to arithmetic functions (Decimal.add/2, Decimal.sub/2, Decimal.div/2), Decimal.to_string/2 with :normal or :xsd format, Decimal.to_integer/1, Decimal.round/3, or Decimal.compare/3 with a threshold allocate memory proportional to the exponent value, which can exhaust available memory and crash the BEAM VM.
Any application that accepts user-supplied decimal input and subsequently performs arithmetic, rounding, conversion to integer, or string formatting on it is exposed. A single malicious request is sufficient to cause an out-of-memory crash.
This issue affects decimal: from 0.1.0 before 3.0.0.
AnalysisAI
Uncontrolled resource consumption in ericmj decimal library (versions 0.1.0 before 3.0.0) allows remote denial of service via maliciously crafted decimal values with extremely large exponents. When applications parse user-supplied decimal input and subsequently perform arithmetic operations, string formatting, rounding, or comparison, the library allocates memory proportional to the exponent magnitude without bounds, exhausting available memory and crashing the BEAM virtual machine. …
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EUVD-2026-28376
GHSA-rhv4-8758-jx7v