Bug 2489071 (CVE-2026-48853) - CVE-2026-48853 grpc: elixir-grpc grpc: Remote Code Execution and Denial of Service via Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Summary: CVE-2026-48853 grpc: elixir-grpc grpc: Remote Code Execution and Denial of Se...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-48853
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-15 23:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-02 13:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-15 23:01:25 UTC
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.


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