CVE-2026-119434: medium-severity vulnerability in silviucpp ezstd
Decompression bomb in ezstd:decompress_using_ddict/2 allows BEAM memory exhaustion via unbounded output buffer
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.9epss 0.2%
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) vulnerability in silviucpp ezstd allows an attacker who supplies a zstd frame to ezstd:decompress_using_ddict/2 to exhaust memory and terminate the Erlang VM via a small frame that declares a very large content size.
zstd_nif_decompress_using_ddict in c_src/ezstd_nif.cc reads the frame's declared content size with ZSTD_getFrameContentSize and passes it directly to enif_make_new_binary, without the 1 GiB MAX_BUFFER_SIZE check that ezstd:decompress/1 applies before allocating. A valid 65,550-byte frame of RLE blocks declaring 2 GiB is rejected by ezstd:decompress/1 but is fully allocated and decompressed by the dictionary path. The allocation happens inside a NIF, so when it exceeds the memory available to the VM the operating system kills the whole node rather than the calling process.
This issue affects ezstd: from 1.0.5 before 1.2.5.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
silviucpp · ezstdReferences
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-119434.htmlhttps://github.com/silviucpp/ezstd/commit/6730128b1d35eca02a2028671421471ff651f423https://github.com/silviucpp/ezstd/commit/e34f4a4f6dc18d990d1cece2d5fceef8e934a195https://github.com/silviucpp/ezstd/releases/tag/v1.2.5https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-119434