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GHSA-6XH2-93P9-VQH4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-30 18:32 – Updated: 2026-06-30 18:32

Summary

oban_web: Unbounded range expansion in cron describe causes memory exhaustion

Details

Summary

oban_web 2.12.0 introduced a cron expression parser that expands --separated ranges without validating the endpoints. An attacker with access to schedule cron jobs can submit a malicious expression; when any user with dashboard access views the cron job list, Oban.Web.CronExpr.describe/1 is called to render it, triggering allocation of gigabytes of memory and stalling or crashing the BEAM node.

Details

1. Scheduling: The attacker submits a cron job with a malicious expression such as "0 0 1-100000000 * *". No special privilege is required beyond the ability to schedule cron jobs.

2. Parsing: When the cron list is rendered in the dashboard, describe/1 calls parse_range/1 in lib/oban/web/cron_expr.ex, which calls Integer.parse/1 on both endpoints of the range with no bounds check, returning {:range, start_val, end_val} for any integers.

3. Eager expansion: expand_dom_parts/1 and expand_dow_parts/1 materialise the range via Enum.to_list(start_val..end_val). The input above produces ~100 million integers (~2.4 GB). A sibling helper extract_dom_values already validates range bounds, but the expansion helpers do not.

PoC

Schedule a cron job with expression "0 0 1-100000000 * *" (or any expression with an out-of-domain range).
Have any user with Oban.Web dashboard access navigate to the cron job list.
The dashboard calls describe/1 to render the expression, exhausting BEAM memory and crashing the node.

Impact

CVSS 4.0 score 5.9 (Medium). Affects oban_web >= 2.12.0. Requires the ability to schedule a cron job and a dashboard user to view the cron list; no further privileges are needed.

References

Introduction commit: https://github.com/oban-bg/oban_web/commit/a97c7960bb389b05aaab4cf8042985f02ceddc24
Patch commit: https://github.com/oban-bg/oban_web/commit/9998b7e284e02fdd4645dd6231760038e63b584d

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                  
                    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

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CVE-2026-48593 (GCVE-0-2026-48593)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-26 19:46 – Updated: 2026-05-27 15:40

Title

Unbounded range expansion in cron describe causes memory exhaustion in oban_web

Summary

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.

Severity

5.9 (Medium)


                        
                          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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-26 20:46 UTC

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

EEF mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/oban-bg/oban_web/security/advi…	vendor-advisoryrelated
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-48593.html	related
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-48593	related
https://github.com/oban-bg/oban_web/commit/9998b7…	patch

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
oban-bg	oban_web	Affected: 2.12.0 , < 2.12.5 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:oban_web_project:oban_web::::::::
oban-bg	oban_web	Affected: a97c7960bb389b05aaab4cf8042985f02ceddc24 , < 9998b7e284e02fdd4645dd6231760038e63b584d (git) cpe:2.3:a:oban_web_project:oban_web::::::::

Credits

Peter Ullrich Shannon Selbert Jonatan Männchen / EEF

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