CVE-2026-53426

Estado: AplazadaAlta (8.2)—

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in leandrocp MDEx allows Excessive Allocation.

MDEx.parse_document/2 accepts a {:json, json} source. In lib/mdex.ex, the private json_to_node/1 function passes the attacker-controlled node_type value to Module.concat/1, which calls String.to_atom/1 and interns a brand-new atom for every distinct value. Atoms are never garbage collected on the BEAM, so a crafted JSON document carrying a unique node_type at each (deeply nested) node mints one permanent atom per node.

A single document can intern hundreds of thousands of atoms, and a large enough document exhausts the default atom table (around 1,048,576 atoms) and aborts the entire Erlang VM, taking down every process on the node.

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Any application that passes untrusted input to the {:json, ...} source of MDEx.parse_document is exposed to an unauthenticated denial-of-service.

This issue affects mdex from 0.4.3 before 0.13.2.

CVSS

Versión: 4.0
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Puntuación base: 8.2

Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)

Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.18%
Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 7
Fecha de la puntuación: 5/10/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).

🎯 Técnicas ATT&CK

Cómo se explota esta vulnerabilidad y qué consigue el atacante, en el lenguaje de MITRE ATT&CK.

ExplotaciónT1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalationprivilege escalation45 %
Impacto principalT1499.004 Application or System Exploitationimpact95 %
Impacto secundarioT1529 System Shutdown/Rebootimpact75 %

AV:L sin UI:R sugiere T1068, pero el ataque es remoto vía JSON a parse_document (untrusted input). El impacto es DoS por agotamiento de recursos (atom table exhaustion → crash de VM). T1529 por shutdown del sistema completo.

Inferido por nuestro agente de análisis a partir de la descripción oficial, el vector CVSS y la CWE, y comprobado por un supervisor. Puede contener errores.

🛡️ Mitigaciones ATT&CK que cubren estas técnicas

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.

Leandrocp — Mdex^AI

CWE

CWE-770

Referencias

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