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"value": "<p>Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ueberauth guardian allows denial of service via unbounded atom creation from attacker-influenced binary input.</p><p><tt>Guardian.Plug.Keys</tt> derives connection and session namespace keys by passing arbitrary binaries to <tt>String.to_atom/1</tt>. <tt>base_key/1</tt> in <tt>lib/guardian/plug/keys.ex</tt> converts any binary into the atom <tt>:\"guardian_&lt;input&gt;\"</tt>, and the derived helpers <tt>claims_key/1</tt>, <tt>resource_key/1</tt>, and <tt>token_key/1</tt> create a second atom on top of that. <tt>key_from_other/1</tt> likewise converts a regex-captured binary through <tt>String.to_atom/1</tt>. The public specs advertise <tt>String.t()</tt> as a valid argument, so passing a string is documented usage, and higher-level entry points such as <tt>Guardian.Plug.current_token(conn, key: key)</tt> thread the caller-supplied key straight into these functions.</p><p><tt>String.to_atom/1</tt> 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.</p><p>This issue affects guardian: from 0.1.0 before 2.4.1.</p>"
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