Description
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in Slab safeurl allows an attacker who controls a hostname's DNS responses to reach internal network destinations that validation rejected.
Validation returns a verdict and not the address it approved, so the HTTP clients the library ships receive the original hostname and resolve it a second time when the request is made. An attacker who controls the authoritative DNS for a name can answer the first lookup with a permitted address and the second with a blocked one, and the request then reaches a destination validation never approved. The same window opens without an attacker whenever a name legitimately resolves to different addresses across lookups, such as short record lifetimes or rotation between several addresses.
This issue affects safeurl: from 0.1.0 onward.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slab | safeurl | 0.1.0 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | safeurl | >= 0.1.0 | — | EEF-CVE-2026-77972 |
References
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-77972 related third-party-advisory
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-77972 related
- Introducing commit feabbd0 in slab/safeurl-elixir related