Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ericmj decimal allows unauthenticated remote Denial of Service.
The decimal library does not bound the exponent on parsed input. Storing a decimal with a very large exponent (e.g. Decimal.new("1e1000000000")) is accepted without error. Subsequent calls to arithmetic functions (Decimal.add/2, Decimal.sub/2, Decimal.div/2), Decimal.to_string/2 with :normal or :xsd format, Decimal.to_integer/1, Decimal.round/3, or Decimal.compare/3 with a threshold allocate memory proportional to the exponent value, which can exhaust available memory and crash the BEAM VM.
Any application that accepts user-supplied decimal input and subsequently performs arithmetic, rounding, conversion to integer, or string formatting on it is exposed. A single malicious request is sufficient to cause an out-of-memory crash.
This issue affects decimal: from 0.1.0 before 3.0.0.
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Thu, 07 May 2026 14:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ericmj decimal allows unauthenticated remote Denial of Service. The decimal library does not bound the exponent on parsed input. Storing a decimal with a very large exponent (e.g. Decimal.new("1e1000000000")) is accepted without error. Subsequent calls to arithmetic functions (Decimal.add/2, Decimal.sub/2, Decimal.div/2), Decimal.to_string/2 with :normal or :xsd format, Decimal.to_integer/1, Decimal.round/3, or Decimal.compare/3 with a threshold allocate memory proportional to the exponent value, which can exhaust available memory and crash the BEAM VM. Any application that accepts user-supplied decimal input and subsequently performs arithmetic, rounding, conversion to integer, or string formatting on it is exposed. A single malicious request is sufficient to cause an out-of-memory crash. This issue affects decimal: from 0.1.0 before 3.0.0. | |
| Title | Unbounded exponent in decimal enables unauthenticated DoS | |
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Ericmj
Ericmj decimal |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:ericmj:decimal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Ericmj
Ericmj decimal |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-07T14:04:47.222Z
Reserved: 2026-03-13T09:12:14.474Z
Link: CVE-2026-32686
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-05-07T15:16:05.370
Modified: 2026-05-07T15:49:13.797
Link: CVE-2026-32686
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