CVE-2026-67585

Summary

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in DivvyPayHQ absinthe_federation allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to abort the Erlang VM via crafted _entities representation keys.

Every key of every object in the representations argument of the federation-mandated _entities field is converted with String.to_atom/1 by convert_key/2 in lib/absinthe/federation/schema/entities_field.ex. representations is typed as the open-ended _Any scalar, so its keys bypass schema coercion and the attacker names them freely. Atoms are never garbage collected and the BEAM atom table is hard-capped (about 1,048,576 entries by default), so one request carrying tens of thousands of unique keys creates that many permanent atoms and a handful of such requests exhausts the table and aborts the node. The impact is confined to availability: no data is read or altered, and recovery requires restarting the application.

This issue affects absinthe_federation: from 0.1.0 before 0.9.3.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
DivvyPayHQabsinthe_federation0.1.0 < 0.9.3affected
DivvyPayHQabsinthe_federation640a234a26b2d6fe5d9d21e00e5f4fce5645c0bf < c3838cda2a7f65c4893291668c223b0d6acf4516affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References