CVE-2026-48853
Essential information
- Published
- 16/06/2026 01:16
- Modified
- 16/06/2026 15:35
- Author
- The MITRE Corporation
- Creator
- The MITRE Corporation
- CVSS
- 9.2 CRITICAL (v3) 9.2 CRITICAL (v4.0)
- CISA KEV
- No
- CWE
- CWE-502
- CVSS vector
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS metrics
- Access vector
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- Access complexity
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- Authentication
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Integrity impact
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- Availability impact
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- Exploitability
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- Remediation level
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- Report confidence
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- Temporal score
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- Attack vector
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- Attack complexity
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Scope
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- Confidentiality impact
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- Exploit code maturity
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- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality (V)
- High
- Confidentiality (S)
- None
- Integrity (V)
- High
- Integrity (S)
- None
- Availability (V)
- High
- Availability (S)
- None
- Exploit maturity
- NOT_DEFINED
Description
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.
NVD status
- Status
- Deferred — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
- Source
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
- NVD
- View on NVD
Affected products (CPE)
| Product | CPE |
|---|---|
| elixir-grpc / grpc | cpe:2.3:a:elixir-grpc:grpc:<0.4.0:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:* |