# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-21619"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-27T17:57:11.513Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-27T15:40:33.166Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-21619"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-21619.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-21619"
title: "Unsafe Deserialization of Erlang Terms in hex_core"
summary: "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in hexpm hex_core (hex_api modules), hexpm hex (mix_hex_api modules), erlang rebar3 (r3_hex_api modules) allows Object Injection, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files src/hex_api.erl, src/mix_hex_api.erl, apps/rebar/src/vendored/r3_hex_api.erl and program routines hex_core:request/4, mix_hex_api:request/4, r3_hex_api:request/4.\n\nThis issue affects hex_core: from 0.1.0 before 0.12.1; hex: from 2.3.0 before 2.3.2; rebar3: from 3.9.1 before 3.27.0."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"eb327f8edfe45507351e38cc0805aa12fa647f0b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cdf726095bca85ad2549d146df1e831ae93c2b13"}],"vendor":"hexpm","product":"hex_core","packageName":"hexpm/hex_core","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"0.1.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"0.12.1"}],"vendor":"hexpm","product":"hex_core","packageName":"hex_core","collectionURL":"https://repo.hex.pm","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"314546ac432229518714cc8e3336e916b9da6305","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"636739f3322514e9303ca335fb630696fcbb3c95"}],"vendor":"hexpm","product":"hex","packageName":"hexpm/hex","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.3.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.3.2"}],"vendor":"hexpm","product":"hex","packageName":"hex","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"209c02ec57c2cc3207ee0174c3af3675b8dc8f79","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1d4478f527e373de0b225951e53115450e0d9b9d"}],"vendor":"erlang","product":"rebar3","packageName":"erlang/rebar3","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.9.1","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.27.0"}],"vendor":"erlang","product":"rebar3","packageName":"rebar3","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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