CVE-2026-54890

Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound) vulnerability in erlang otp erlang/otp (erts modules), erlang otp erts (erts modules) allows Forced Integer Overflow, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files erts/emulator/beam/external.c, emulator/beam/external.c. The BIT_BINARY_EXT tag (77) handler in the External Term Format (ETF) decoder accepts an encoding with both length and trailing-bits fields set to zero. The subsequent computation of the bitstring size underflows an unsigned integer, producing a value of roughly 2^64 that is then passed as a memory allocation size. The allocator aborts the entire node with a message such as "Cannot allocate 2305843009213693951 bytes of memory (of type binary)". The crash is a VM-level abort, not an Erlang-level exception. It cannot be intercepted by supervision trees, by try/catch, or by passing the [safe] option to binary_to_term/2 (which only restricts atom creation and does not perform structural validation of binary encodings). Any application that decodes ETF from untrusted sources via binary_to_term/1,2 or enif_binary_to_term() is exposed. The Erlang distribution protocol also decodes incoming terms through the same code path, but distribution is expected to run on trusted networks per the OTP Secure Coding Guidelines (DSG-011). This issue affects OTP from OTP 27.0 before OTP 29.0.4, OTP 28.5.0.4 and OTP 27.3.4.15, corresponding to erts from 15.0 before 17.0.4, 16.4.0.4 and 15.2.7.11.

• CWE-191
• CWE-789
• CWE-1284

• https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-54890.htmlPatch, Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/dc1bf9344c0ce62717cf60866590cea0242780fdPatch
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-54pw-5645-jh86Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-54890Patch, Third Party Advisory
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versionsRelease Notes

Published

Jul 27, 2026

Last Modified

Aug 10, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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