Every key of every object in the representations argument of the federation-mandated _entities field is converted with String.to_atom/1 by convert_key/2 in lib/absinthe/federation/schema/entities_field.ex. representations is typed as the open-ended _Any scalar, so its keys bypass schema coercion and the attacker names them freely. Atoms are never garbage collected and the BEAM atom table is hard-capped (about 1,048,576 entries by default), so one request carrying tens of thousands of unique keys creates that many permanent atoms and a handful of such requests exhausts the table and aborts the node. The impact is confined to availability: no data is read or altered, and recovery requires restarting the application.
This issue affects absinthe_federation: from 0.1.0 before 0.9.3.
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| DivvyPayHQ | absinthe_federation | unaffected |
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| Description | Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in DivvyPayHQ absinthe_federation allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to abort the Erlang VM via crafted _entities representation keys. Every key of every object in the representations argument of the federation-mandated _entities field is converted with String.to_atom/1 by convert_key/2 in lib/absinthe/federation/schema/entities_field.ex. representations is typed as the open-ended _Any scalar, so its keys bypass schema coercion and the attacker names them freely. Atoms are never garbage collected and the BEAM atom table is hard-capped (about 1,048,576 entries by default), so one request carrying tens of thousands of unique keys creates that many permanent atoms and a handful of such requests exhausts the table and aborts the node. The impact is confined to availability: no data is read or altered, and recovery requires restarting the application. This issue affects absinthe_federation: from 0.1.0 before 0.9.3. | |
| Title | Atom Exhaustion via _entities Representation Keys in DivvyPayHQ absinthe_federation | |
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Divvypayhq absinthe Federation |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:divvypayhq:absinthe_federation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
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Divvypayhq absinthe Federation |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: EEF
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Updated: 2026-08-07T18:12:59.050Z
Reserved: 2026-08-07T10:15:01.514Z
Link: CVE-2026-67585
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Updated: 2026-08-07T17:30:16Z