CVE-2026-21619

### Impact The Hex client (`hex_core`) deserializes Erlang terms received from the Hex API using `binary_to_term/1` without sufficient restrictions. If an attacker can control the HTTP response body returned by the Hex API, this allows denial-of-service attacks such as **atom table exhaustion**, leading to a VM crash. No released versions are known to allow remote code execution. ### Patches * https://github.com/hexpm/hex_core/commit/cdf726095bca85ad2549d146df1e831ae93c2b13 * https://github.com/hexpm/hex/commit/636739f3322514e9303ca335fb630696fcbb3c95 * https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/commit/1d4478f527e373de0b225951e53115450e0d9b9d ### Workarounds Ensure that the Hex API URL (`HEX_API_URL`) points only to trusted endpoints. There is no client-side workaround that fully mitigates this issue without applying the patch. ### Resources * hex_core Module: https://github.com/hexpm/hex_core/blob/main/src/hex_api.erl * Hex Vendored Module: https://github.com/hexpm/hex/blob/main/src/mix_hex_api.erl * Rebar3 Vendored Module: https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/blob/main/apps/rebar/src/vendored/r3_hex_api.erl * hex_core Patch: https://github.com/hexpm/hex_core/commit/cdf726095bca85ad2549d146df1e831ae93c2b13 * Hex Vendored Patch: https://github.com/hexpm/hex/commit/636739f3322514e9303ca335fb630696fcbb3c95 * Rebar3 Vendored Patch: https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/commit/1d4478f527e373de0b225951e53115450e0d9b9d

## Summary Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in hexpm hex\_core (hex\_api modules), hexpm hex (mix\_hex\_api modules), erlang rebar3 (r3\_hex\_api modules) allows Object Injection, Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files src/hex\_api.erl, src/mix\_hex\_api.erl, apps/rebar/src/vendored/r3\_hex\_api.erl and program routines hex\_core:request/4, mix\_hex\_api:request/4, r3\_hex\_api:request/4. This issue affects hex\_core: from 0.1.0 before 0.12.1; hex: from 2.3.0 before 2.3.2; rebar3: from 3.9.1 before 3.27.0.