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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-59696 EUVD-2026-69229

uri_string does not bound the port component of a URI before integer conversion

Published Sep 1, 2026 · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

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, OTP 28.5.0.6, and OTP 29.0.6, corresponding to stdlib from 3.5 before 6.2.2.5, 7.3.0.2, and 8.0.4.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Erlang OTP 21.0, 3.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 erlang 1:29.0.6+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 erlang 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u4 —
Debian 12 erlang No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS erlang 1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS erlang 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS erlang 1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.7 —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS erlang 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5+esm2 —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 erlang 26.2.5.21-6 —

Advisories 1

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