01 Record
CVE-2026-97853
Unbounded allocation in decimal Decimal.round/3 driven by the places argument enables DoS
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: EEF
CNA base score6.9 CVSS v4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
02 Description
Unbounded allocation in decimal Decimal.round/3 driven by the places argument enables DoS
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- Not scored by EPSS
- EPSS percentile
- Not scored by EPSS
- NVD base score
- 6.9 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Received. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-10.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-10-10 19:43Z2 HR AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-10-10 19:43Z2 HR AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-10-09
- Assigning CNA
- EEF
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 6.9)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-789Memory Allocation with Excessive Size ValueVariant
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 6a6e6c475bf1f727931f9985f234da28f11882cf4f903b34876e7ef464c19e54
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comGHSA-6c27-994x-c52fhttps://github.com/ericmj/decimal/security/advisories/GHSA-6c27-994x-c52f
- cna.erlef.orgEEF CNA record for CVE-2026-97853https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-97853.html
- osv.devOSV record EEF-CVE-2026-97853https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-97853
- github.comIntroducing commit 05bb73e in ericmj/decimalhttps://github.com/ericmj/decimal/commit/05bb73eb40ddef24eda782d905766f56a3660522
- github.comFix commit 338f42c in ericmj/decimalhttps://github.com/ericmj/decimal/commit/338f42c8cf6a9749ab70c5af04734c6050ca3dc6
- github.comFix commit 3c90af4 in ericmj/decimalhttps://github.com/ericmj/decimal/commit/3c90af4c3c2dfa4bb4c138760a326dd0eb91822b