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CVE-2026-93471: CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) in handnot2 esaml

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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-93471cvecve-2026-93471cwe-409
Published: 10/22/2026 (10/22/2026, 06:59:24 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: handnot2
Product: 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

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Vuln. Confidentiality
None
Vuln. Integrity
None
Vuln. Availability
High
Subsq. Confidentiality
None
Subsq. Integrity
None
Subsq. Availability
None
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected software

handnot2

esaml

arekinath

esaml

dropbox

esaml

Affected versions
>=0.1.0

dropbox

esaml

GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
handnot2/esaml
pkg:github/handnot2/esaml
GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
arekinath/esaml
pkg:github/arekinath/esaml
esaml
pkg:hex/esaml
Affected versions
>=0.1.0
GitHub Actionsmore threats →cve
dropbox/esaml
pkg:github/dropbox/esaml
CPE configurations (3)
cpe:2.3:a:handnot2:esaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:arekinath:esaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:dropbox:esaml:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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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