CVE-2026-32686

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.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
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

Configurations

No configuration.

History

08 May 2026, 23:16

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References	~~() https://github.com/ericmj/decimal/security/advisories/GHSA-rhv4-8758-jx7v -~~	() https://github.com/ericmj/decimal/security/advisories/GHSA-rhv4-8758-jx7v -

07 May 2026, 15:49

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-05-07 15:16

Updated : 2026-05-08 23:16

NVD link : CVE-2026-32686

Mitre link : CVE-2026-32686

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-32686

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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