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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Description 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.
Title Remote code execution and denial of service via unsafe Erlang term deserialization in elixir-grpc/grpc
First Time appeared Elixir-grpc
Elixir-grpc grpc
Weaknesses CWE-502
CWE-770
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:elixir-grpc:grpc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Elixir-grpc
Elixir-grpc grpc
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 9.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: EEF

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Updated: 2026-06-15T21:56:15.262Z

Reserved: 2026-05-25T20:44:10.696Z

Link: CVE-2026-48853

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-06-15T23:16:45.663

Modified: 2026-06-15T23:16:45.663

Link: CVE-2026-48853

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Updated: 2026-06-16T02:30:14Z

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