CVE-2026-32686
Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
07/05/2026
Last modified:
08/05/2026
Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ericmj decimal allows unauthenticated remote Denial of Service.<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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This issue affects decimal: from 0.1.0 before 3.0.0.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
6.90
Severity 4.0
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-32686.html
- https://github.com/ericmj/decimal/commit/6a523f3a73b8c9974540e21c7aa88f1258bb35ae
- https://github.com/ericmj/decimal/security/advisories/GHSA-rhv4-8758-jx7v
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-32686
- https://github.com/ericmj/decimal/security/advisories/GHSA-rhv4-8758-jx7v