CVE-2026-93471: CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in handnot2 esaml
Description
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in esaml_binding in dropbox esaml allows an unauthenticated attacker to exhaust server memory and crash the Erlang VM via a crafted compressed SAMLResponse. esaml_binding:decode_response/2 base64-decodes the attacker-supplied SAMLResponse, inflates it with zlib:unzip/1 with no bound on the output, then converts the result to a charlist with binary_to_list/1 before parsing. This runs on the SAML consume (ACS) and single-logout endpoints, which accept unauthenticated requests by design, and it runs before any signature check. A small deflate stream reaches a compression ratio near 1000 to 1, so a request body of tens of kilobytes inflates to hundreds of megabytes and then to several gigabytes of list heap, so a few requests exhaust memory and take the node down. This issue affects esaml: from 0.1.0 onward.
CVSS v4.0
Score 8.7high
Affected software
handnot2
esaml
arekinath
esaml
dropbox
esaml
dropbox
esaml
cpe:2.3:a:handnot2:esaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:arekinath:esaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:dropbox:esaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Run on your own infrastructure? Check whether these packages are installed with threat-finder — our free open-source scanner.
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- EEF
- Date Reserved
- 2026-10-06T08:45:01.518Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6ad9bbc04d27ba8daa39361e
Added to database: 10/22/2026, 07:31:12 UTC
Last updated: 10/22/2026, 07:31:12 UTC
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