# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-49762"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-06-09T14:04:07.405Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-06T08:35:59.691Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-49762"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-49762.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-49762"
title: "Unbounded integer parsing in the Version module enables CPU and memory exhaustion denial of service"
summary: "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in the Elixir standard library's Version module allows an attacker who controls a version string to cause a denial of service through CPU and memory exhaustion.\n\nThe version parser converts numeric version components (major, minor, patch and numeric pre-release/build identifiers) to integers without bounding their length. A single large all-digit component therefore forces a super-linear, non-yielding base-10 to arbitrary-precision integer conversion (String.to_integer/1, i.e. :erlang.binary_to_integer/1) that pins a BEAM scheduler, and a larger component raises an uncaught SystemLimitError that crashes the calling process. A single moderately sized string (around one megabyte) is enough; no authentication is required.\n\nThis is reachable from the public entry points Version.parse/1, Version.parse!/1, Version.match?/3, Version.compare/2, and Version.parse_requirement/1, which applications routinely call on untrusted input such as HTTP parameters, dependency-manifest fields, and package metadata.\n\nThis vulnerability is associated with program files lib/version.ex and program routines 'Elixir.Version.Parser':parse_digits/2.\n\nThis issue affects elixir: from 0.9.3 before 1.20.1."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0.9.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.20.1"}],"vendor":"elixir-lang","product":"elixir","packageName":"elixir","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"057691722eb8cfe315f5606358954a2b173ff7a3","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"*","changes":[{"at":"c64417d72fd5c7d09e963ca3ac5fa2b140978d9e","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"64e6707233464c3e55a9ca6b44019aed25b0390a","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"elixir-lang","product":"elixir","packageName":"elixir-lang/elixir","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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