{"id":78661,"date":"2026-05-20T17:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8469-unauthenticated-denial-of-service-via-beam-atom-table-exhaustion-in-phoenix_storybook\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:17:04","slug":"cve-2026-8469-unauthenticated-denial-of-service-via-beam-atom-table-exhaustion-in-phoenix_storybook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-8469-unauthenticated-denial-of-service-via-beam-atom-table-exhaustion-in-phoenix_storybook\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-8469 &#8211; Unauthenticated denial-of-service via BEAM atom table exhaustion in phoenix_storybook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8469<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 20, 2026, 2:17 p.m. | 40\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in phenixdigital phoenix_storybook allows unauthenticated denial-of-service via BEAM atom table exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple LiveView event handlers convert user-supplied event parameter strings to atoms using String.to_atom\/1 without validation: &#8216;Elixir.PhoenixStorybook.ExtraAssignsHelpers&#8217;:handle_set_variation_assign\/3 interns every key of the psb-assign params map; &#8216;Elixir.PhoenixStorybook.ExtraAssignsHelpers&#8217;:handle_toggle_variation_assign\/3 interns the &#8220;attr&#8221; value from psb-toggle events; &#8216;Elixir.PhoenixStorybook.ExtraAssignsHelpers&#8217;:to_variation_id\/2 interns elements of &#8220;variation_id&#8221;; and &#8216;Elixir.PhoenixStorybook.ExtraAssignsHelpers&#8217;:to_value\/4 interns raw string values for attributes declared as :atom or :boolean. BEAM atoms are never garbage-collected, so each unique attacker-controlled string is a permanent allocation. Once the atom table ceiling (~1,048,576 atoms) is reached, the entire BEAM node aborts, taking down all applications running on it.<\/p>\n<p>This issue affects phoenix_storybook from 0.2.0 before 1.1.0.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 8.2 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-8469 Published : May 20, 2026, 2:17 p.m. | 40\u00a0minutes ago Description :Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in phenixdigital phoenix_storybook allows unauthenticated denial-of-service via BEAM atom table exhaustion. Multiple LiveView event handlers convert user-supplied event parameter strings to atoms using String.to_atom\/1 without validation: &#8216;Elixir.PhoenixStorybook.ExtraAssignsHelpers&#8217;:handle_set_variation_assign\/3 interns every key of the psb-assign &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}