CVE-2026-93471

Published: Ott 22, 2026 Last Modified: Ott 22, 2026
ExploitDB:
Other exploit source:
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HIGH 8,7
Source: 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Confidentiality: N/A
Integrity: N/A
Availability: N/A

Description

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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.

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Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

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Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Amplification Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu) Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
View CWE Details
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-93471.html
https://github.com/arekinath/esaml/commit/deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca…
https://github.com/dropbox/esaml/commit/deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca14a
https://github.com/handnot2/esaml/commit/deeb84378d5c82153b470e99d24f77c38afca1…
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-93471