CVE-2026-48853: Remote code execution and denial of service via unsafe Erlang term deserialization in elixir-grpc/grpc
elixir-grpc · grpc
Fixed in 1.0.0 · Affected: elixir-grpc grpc before 1.0.0 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 56% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products2
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- elixir-grpc · grpcfrom 0.4.0 before 1.0.0
- elixir-grpc · grpcVersions not stated
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- elixir-grpc
- Published
- June 2026
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