CVE-2026-59696
MediumCVSS 6.9Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk35th percentile - higher than 35% of all known CVEs
Summary
The stdlib module in Erlang/OTP has an improper validation of specified quantity vulnerability. A remote attacker can degrade availability by supplying a URI with a very long port, causing expensive integer conversion.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can cause CPU exhaustion in the application process that parses URIs, 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 URI processing.
Other vulnerabilities in Erlang/OTP stdlib
Original NVD description (English source)
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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

