CVE-2026-48593CWE-400

Unbounded range expansion in cron describe causes memory exhaustion in oban_web

Medium · published May 26, 2026

CVSS v4.0
5.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
39.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in oban-bg oban_web ('Elixir.Oban.Web.CronExpr' modules) allows memory exhaustion via unbounded cron range expansion.

An attacker with access to schedule cron jobs can submit a malicious cron expression such as "0 0 1-100000000 * *". When a user with dashboard access views the cron job list, 'Elixir.Oban.Web.CronExpr':describe/1 is called to render the expression. parse_range/1 parses both range endpoints via Integer.parse/1 with no bounds check, and the downstream helpers expand_dom_parts/1 and expand_dow_parts/1 materialise the range eagerly via Enum.to_list/1, causing allocation of ~2.4 GB and stalling or crashing the BEAM node. A sibling helper extract_dom_values already validates range bounds, but the expansion helpers do not.

This issue affects oban_web: from 2.12.0 before 2.12.5.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00466 · 39.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2026-05-26T19:46Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 MAY 19:46Z
    Unbounded range expansion in cron describe causes memory exhaustion in oban_web
    cvelistv5