{"id":"CVE-2026-54894","title":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ueberauth guardian allows denial of service via unbounded atom creation from attacker-influenced binary input.\n\nGuardian.Plug.Keys derives connection and session namespace keys by p…","summary":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ueberauth guardian allows denial of service via unbounded atom creation from attacker-influenced binary input.\n\nGuardian.Plug.Keys derives connection and session namespace keys by p…","severity":"none","cwe":["CWE-770"],"published":"2026-08-01","updated":"2026-08-01","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54894","references":[{"url":"https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-54894.html","label":"6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db"},{"url":"https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/commit/2952657e42e6341a67e6aaad09d8f0b40ae917cb","label":"6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db"},{"url":"https://github.com/ueberauth/guardian/security/advisories/GHSA-xqch-c77q-rgh5","label":"6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db"},{"url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-54894","label":"6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db"}],"tags":["nvd"],"ingestedAt":"2026-08-02T09:18:11.851Z","epss":0.00322,"epssPercentile":0.25421,"slug":"CVE-2026-54894","body":"## Overview\n\nAllocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ueberauth guardian allows denial of service via unbounded atom creation from attacker-influenced binary input.\n\nGuardian.Plug.Keys derives connection and session namespace keys by passing arbitrary binaries to String.to_atom/1. base_key/1 in lib/guardian/plug/keys.ex converts any binary into the atom :\"guardian_<input>\", and the derived helpers claims_key/1, resource_key/1, and token_key/1 create a second atom on top of that. key_from_other/1 likewise converts a regex-captured binary through String.to_atom/1. The public specs advertise String.t() as a valid argument, so passing a string is documented usage, and higher-level entry points such as Guardian.Plug.current_token(conn, key: key) thread the caller-supplied key straight into these functions.\n\nString.to_atom/1 creates a brand-new atom for every previously unseen binary, atoms are never garbage collected, and the BEAM atom table is fixed at roughly 1,048,576 entries by default. An application that routes attacker-influenced data (a tenant identifier, header, or other request input) into a Guardian key therefore mints one permanent atom per distinct value. A modest stream of varied, unauthenticated input permanently consumes the atom table and crashes the BEAM node, taking down every application running on it.\n\nThis issue affects guardian: from 0.1.0 before 2.4.1.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":3,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":2.8,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}