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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-75758"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-28T11:28:53.505Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-28T18:29:23.745Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-75758"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-75758.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75758"
title: "Unbounded recursion between Inspect.List charlist rendering and List.to_string/1 error path in Elixir"
summary: "Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in the Elixir standard library allows an attacker who controls a list passed to inspect/1, List.to_string/1, or List.to_charlist/1 to exhaust a BEAM node's memory.\n\nInspect.List's charlist branch in lib/elixir/lib/inspect.ex classifies a list as a charlist using List.ascii_printable?/2, which examines only the first :printable_limit (4096 by default) elements, and then calls IO.chardata_to_string/1 on the whole term. A list whose printable prefix exceeds that limit but which contains a later element that is not a code point (an atom, an out-of-range integer, or an improper tail) is therefore mis-classified, and the conversion raises ArgumentError. That conversion runs inside List.to_string/1, whose rescue clause builds its message by interpolating inspect(list), which re-enters the same branch and raises again. The nested inspection is an argument to raise, so the recursion is not in tail position and every level is retained: the process stack grows monotonically while each cycle re-walks the list, until the process is killed by max_heap_size or, by default, the node runs out of memory. List.to_charlist/1 has the same rescue shape.\n\nBelow the printable limit the inner inspect/1 sees the invalid element within its counter and renders the list in ordinary bracket form, so a single ArgumentError is raised and no recursion occurs.\n\nThis issue affects elixir: from 1.15.0-rc.0 before 1.18.5, from 1.19.0-rc.0 before 1.19.6, and from 1.20.0-rc.0 before 1.20.4."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1.15.0-rc.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.18.5"},{"version":"1.19.0-rc.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.19.6"},{"version":"1.20.0-rc.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.20.4"}],"vendor":"elixir-lang","product":"elixir","packageName":"elixir","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"9718f2b90ce086ff8614d5782f4ec528495c98dd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"*","changes":[{"at":"1eff1acffd49bdcc0d7f57ca74c1603328eed68a","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"5230d73968f1b4969d2a2646786fa6c71475f5cc","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"a983c8c043b1fbf1d95df78a29149222dac2988c","status":"unaffected"},{"at":"0bba5887577b1e328da825bd018815fdc519685a","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"elixir-lang","product":"elixir","packageName":"elixir-lang/elixir","collectionURL":"https://github.com","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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