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ubuntu-cve-2026-48853

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-06-15 23:16

Modified

2026-06-24 09:03

Summary

Details

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.

Severity

9.2 (Critical)


                    
                      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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-48853	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-48853	REPORT

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CVE-2026-48853 (GCVE-0-2026-48853)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-15 21:56 – Updated: 2026-06-17 04:47

Title

Remote code execution and denial of service via unsafe Erlang term deserialization in elixir-grpc/grpc

Summary

Severity

9.2 (Critical)


                        
                          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

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

EEF

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/security/advi…	vendor-advisoryrelated
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48853.html	related
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48853	related
https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/commit/272a97…	patch

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
elixir-grpc	grpc	Affected: 0.4.0 , < 1.0.0 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:elixir-grpc:grpc::::::::
elixir-grpc	grpc	Affected: 25bcc569fe2cc4478531a6c546c923205fc751c9 , < 272a97a5ea1b46af1819f14a831fcf35fc91f992 (git) cpe:2.3:a:elixir-grpc:grpc::::::::

Credits

Peter Ullrich Paulo Valente Jonatan Männchen

Show details on NVD website

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    "cveId": "CVE-2026-48853",
    "datePublished": "2026-06-15T21:56:15.262Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-05-25T20:44:10.696Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-06-17T04:47:30.147Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
  },
  "dataType": "CVE_RECORD",
  "dataVersion": "5.2"
}

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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ubuntu-cve-2026-48853

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2026-48853 (GCVE-0-2026-48853)

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature