Loading vulnerability…
CVE-2026-59251 is an uncontrolled resource-allocation flaw in Erlang/OTP public_key certificate-path validation. During RFC 5280 certificate-policy processing performed by public_key:pkix_path_validation/3, policy-tree expansion is not bounded. A certificate chain containing M policies per certificate across K certificates can cause approximately M^K policy-tree nodes to be created. The resulting processing can pin BEAM schedulers and exhaust VM memory. Affected releases include OTP 26.2 through versions preceding the applicable fixes in OTP 27.3.4.15, 28.5.0.4, and 29.0.4; corresponding affected public_key releases begin at 1.15 and precede 1.17.1.5, 1.20.3.4, or 1.21.4, respectively.
Mallory correlates every CVE against your assets, your vendors, and active adversary campaigns. Know which vulnerabilities matter for you, not just which ones are loud.
What it means. What to do now. Patch path, mitigations, and the assume-compromise checklist.
What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
If you can’t patch tonight, do this now.
Patch, then assume compromise.
No public exploits tracked yet. Mallory keeps watching.
No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
Products and vendors Mallory has correlated with this vulnerability. Open in Mallory to drill down to specific CPE configurations and version ranges.
Vendor-confirmed product mapping. Mallory continuously reconciles this list against your asset inventory.
6 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A vulnerability in Erlang addressed through a backported fix in the Fedora 43 erlang-26.2.5.21-7.fc43 security update; no technical vulnerability details are provided.
A vulnerability in Erlang addressed through a backported fix in the Fedora 44 erlang-26.2.5.21-7.fc44 security update.
Unknown
A vulnerability referenced in the PhotonOS PHSA-2026-5.0-92 advisory for the erlang package.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.