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CVE-2026-42793

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in absinthe-graphql absinthe allows unauthenticated denial of service via atom table exhaustion when parsing attacker-controlled GraphQL SDL. Multiple Blueprint.Draft.convert/2 implementations in Absinthe's SDL language modules call String.to_atom/1 on attacker-controlled names from parsed GraphQL SDL documents, including directive names, field names, type names, and argument names. Because atoms are never garbage-collected and

Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:898c5fd75b371a3448527918fb972dea0481c977df85494bb9f366b7c33c860f

Known exploited

Not asserted

Disputed

Stale source

Conflicts

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 2 assertions

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cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Affected products and versions

2 source assertions

cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
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Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion

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cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
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CWE assertions

1 source assertion

{"cweId":"CWE-770","description":"CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
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Source references

4 source assertions

{"tags":["related"],"url":"https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-42793.html"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"tags":["patch"],"url":"https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe/commit/dd842b938e3823f345c10416914ffab5d5536838"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"tags":["vendor-advisory","related"],"url":"https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe/security/advisories/GHSA-qf4g-9fqq-mmm7"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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{"tags":["related"],"url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-42793"}

cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
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Attribution and limitations

CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

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