Weakness (CWE)
CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Implementation
Ensure that an end condition will be reached under all logic conditions. The end condition may include checking against the depth of recursion and exiting with an error if the recursion goes too deep. The complexity of the end condition contributes to the effectiveness of this action.
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Implementation
Increase the stack size.
Source: MITRE CWE-674
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High 8.2
MessagePack-CSharp: Denial of service vulnerabilities can swamp the CPU or crash the process with stack and heap overflows
MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, MessagePackReader.ReadDateTime() can allocate stack memory based on an attacker-controlled MessagePack extension length. In the slow path for timestamp extension parsing, the c…
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High 7.5
MessagePack-CSharp: MessagePackReader.Skip can recurse without enforcing maximum object graph depth
MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, MessagePackReader.TrySkip() recursively descends into nested arrays and maps without incrementing the reader depth or calling the configured depth checks. This bypasses Message…
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High 7.5
protobufjs: Denial of service through unbounded Any expansion during JSON conversion
protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.6.1 and 8.4.1, protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while converting decoded messages to plain objects or JSON. This affected generated toObject() conversion and the…
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High 7.5
Qiskit SDK is vulnerable to specific functions may recurse too deeply and overflow the available stack space, when encountering certain classical expressions.
IBM Qiskit SDK 0.43.0 through 2.5.0 could allow an attacker to trigger a segmentation fault leading to a denial of service due to uncontrolled recursion in the parser.
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High 8.7
Kanidm: Unauthenticated process abort via SCIM filter stack exhaustion
Kanidm is an identity management platform. Prior to version 1.9.3, a single unauthenticated GET to any /scim/v1/... endpoint with a ?filter= query string of a few thousand nested parentheses (≈ 4–12 KB) drives the recursive-descent PEG parser past the worker …
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High 7.5
Unbounded recursion in BSONColumn interleaved-reference causes pre-auth stack overflow
A vulnerability in MongoDB Server's BSON validation logic allows an unauthenticated user to crash the mongod process by sending a specially crafted message. The BSON validator's handling of certain nested binary data structures permits uncontrolled mutual rec…
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High 7.5
SQLFluff: Recursive Stack Overflow in Parser
SQLFluff is a modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code. Prior to version 4.1.0, in deployments where untrusted users can provide SQL queries to be linted, an untrusted user can submit a malicious query with d…
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High 7.5
FreeSWITCH: Stack overflow in bundled cJSON parser via deeply nested JSON
FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to version 1.11.1, a single unauthenticated WebSocket frame containing…
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High 7.5
Net::CIDR::Set versions through 0.20 for Perl did not validate IP addresses
Net::CIDR::Set versions through 0.20 for Perl did not validate IP addresses. The add method called the _encode method to parse addresses. If the addresses did not look like netmasks or network ranges, then they were assumed to single IP addresses and passed b…
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High 8.2
Unbounded recursion in grpcfuse kernel module allows container to crash Docker Desktop VM
Fixed a VM panic caused by unbounded recursion in the grpcfuse kernel module when a container created deeply nested directories on a bind-mounted host folder and triggered a dentry invalidation event. This issue has been fixed in Docker Desktop 4.76.0.
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High 7.1
Vvveb < 1.0.8.3 Uncontrolled Recursion Denial of Service
Vvveb before 1.0.8.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the admin controller dispatch cycle where Base::init() repeatedly invokes permission() on error handlers, causing infinite recursion until PHP memory limits are exhausted. Attackers can …
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High 7.5
PostgreSQL SSL/GSS init causes denial of service, via uncontrolled recursion
Uncontrolled recursion in PostgreSQL SSL and GSS negotiation allows an attacker able to connect to a PostgreSQL AF_UNIX socket to achieve sustained denial of service. If SSL and GSS are both disabled, an attacker can do the same via access to a PostgreSQL TCP…
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High 7.5
protobufjs: Denial of service through unbounded protobuf recursion
protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.5.6 and 8.0.2, protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while decoding nested protobuf data. This affected both skipping unknown group fields and generated decoding of n…
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High 7.5
LiquidJS is vulnerable to Denial of Service via circular block reference in layout
LiquidJS is a Shopify / GitHub Pages compatible template engine in pure JavaScript. Prior to version 10.25.7, a circular block reference in {% layout %} / {% block %} causes an infinite recursive loop, consuming all available memory (~4GB) and crashing the No…
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High 8.7
xmldom: Denial of service via uncontrolled recursion in XML serialization
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) `DOMParser` and `XMLSerializer` module. In @xmldom/xmldom prior to versions 0.9.10 and 0.8.13 and xmldom version 0.6.0 and prior, seven recursive traversals in lib/dom.js operate without a …
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High —
ldap3_proto has LDAP Filter stack exhaustion
### Impact LDAP queries are not validated for depth, which can cause the parser (both PEG and ASN) to exhaust the stack. This *may* cause a denial of service in applications that process queries. ### Workarounds N/A ### References Related to GHSA-r5fr-9gmv-jg…
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High 7.5
An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7 and Lix before 2.95.2. Unbounded recursion in the NAR (Nix Archive) parser…
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High 7.5
pf can overflow the stack parsing crafted SCTP packets
Incorrect packet validation allowed unbounded recursion parsing SCTP chunk parameters. This can eventually result in a stack overflow and panic. Remote attackers can craft packets which cause affected systems to panic. This affects any system where pf is conf…
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High 8.7
Apache Thrift: Node.js skip() recursion
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Thrift Node.js bindings This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.23.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.23.0, which fixes the issue.
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High 8.7
Marked: OOM Denial of Service via Infinite Recursion in marked Tokenizer
Marked is a markdown parser and compiler. From 18.0.0 to 18.0.1, a critical Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in marked. By providing a specific 3-byte input sequence a tab, a vertical tab, and a newline (\x09\x0b\n)—an unauthenticated attacker can…
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High 7.5
Nest: DoS via Recursive handleData in JsonSocket (TCP Transport)
Nest is a framework for building scalable Node.js server-side applications. Prior to 11.1.19, when an attacker sends many small, valid JSON messages in one TCP frame, handleData() recurses once per message; the buffer shrinks each call. maxBufferSize is never…
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High 7.5
Meridian: Multiple defense-in-depth gaps (collection/depth caps, telemetry, retry, fan-out)
## Summary Meridian v2.1.0 (`Meridian.Mapping` and `Meridian.Mediator`) shipped with nine defense-in-depth gaps reachable through its public APIs. Two are HIGH severity — the advertised `DefaultMaxCollectionItems` and `DefaultMaxDepth` safety caps are silentl…
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High 7.5
ImageMagick is vulnerable to Stack Overflow in DestroyXMLTree()
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. In versions below both 7.1.2-19 and 6.9.13-44, Magick frees the memory of the XML tree via the `DestroyXMLTree()` function; however, this process is executed recurs…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-39376 Public exploit
FastFeedParser has an infinite redirect loop DoS via meta-refresh chain
FastFeedParser is a high performance RSS, Atom and RDF parser. Prior to 0.5.10, when parse() fetches a URL that returns an HTML page containing a <meta http-equiv="refresh"> tag, it recursively calls itself with the redirect URL — with no depth limit, no visi…
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High 7.5
C2C CI utils is vulnerable to DoS via pyasn dependency (CVE-2026-30922)
Pin vulnerable version of pyasn, see: See: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jr27-m4p2-rc6r
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High 8.2
Parse Server: LiveQuery subscription query depth bypass
Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to versions 8.6.56 and 9.6.0-alpha.45, Parse Server's LiveQuery component does not enforce the requestComplexity.queryDepth configuration setting whe…
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High 8.7
Parse Server: Query condition depth bypass via pre-validation transform pipeline
Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to versions 8.6.55 and 9.6.0-alpha.44, an attacker can send an unauthenticated HTTP request with a deeply nested query containing logical operators t…
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High 7.5
cbor2 has a Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursion in cbor2.loads
cbor2 provides encoding and decoding for the Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) serialization format. Versions prior to 5.9.0 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack caused by uncontrolled recursion when decoding deeply nested CBOR structu…
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High 7.5
AutoMapper Vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via Uncontrolled Recursion
AutoMapper is a convention-based object-object mapper in .NET. Versions prior to 15.1.1 and 16.1.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack. When mapping deeply nested object graphs, the library uses recursive method calls without enforcing a defaul…
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High 8.7
Parse Server crash via deeply nested query condition operators
Parse Server is an open source backend that can be deployed to any infrastructure that can run Node.js. Prior to 9.6.0-alpha.21 and 8.6.45, an unauthenticated attacker can crash the Parse Server process by sending a single request with deeply nested query con…
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High 7.5
pyasn1 Vulnerable to Denial of Service via Unbounded Recursion
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.3, the `pyasn1` library is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack caused by uncontrolled recursion when decoding ASN.1 data with deeply nested structures. An attacker can supply a crafted payl…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-31899 Public exploit
CairoSVG vulnerable to Exponential DoS via recursive <use> element amplification
CairoSVG is an SVG converter based on Cairo, a 2D graphics library. Prior to Kozea/CairoSVG has exponential denial of service via recursive <use> element amplification in cairosvg/defs.py. This causes CPU exhaustion from a small input.
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High 7.5
flatted: Unbounded recursion DoS in parse() revive phase
flatted is a circular JSON parser. Prior to 3.4.0, flatted's parse() function uses a recursive revive() phase to resolve circular references in deserialized JSON. When given a crafted payload with deeply nested or self-referential $ indices, the recursion dep…
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High 7.5
Uncontrolled Recursion in GitLab
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service by sending specially crafted GraphQL requests due to uncontrolled recursion under certai…
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High 8.7
xgrammar: Multi-layer nesting causes DoS
xgrammar is an open-source library for efficient, flexible, and portable structured generation. Prior to version 0.1.32, the multi-level nested syntax caused a segmentation fault (core dumped). This issue has been patched in version 0.1.32.
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High 8.7
Multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via uncontrolled recursion
Multer is a node.js middleware for handling `multipart/form-data`. A vulnerability in Multer prior to version 2.1.1 allows an attacker to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending malformed requests, potentially causing stack overflow. Users should upgrade…
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High 8.2
Underscore.js has unlimited recursion in _.flatten and _.isEqual, potential for DoS attack
Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript. Prior to 1.13.8, the _.flatten and _.isEqual functions use recursion without a depth limit. Under very specific conditions, detailed below, an attacker could exploit this in a Denial of Service (DoS) att…
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High 7.5
A Stack Overflow vulnerability was discovered in the TON Virtual Machine (TVM) before v2024.10. The vulnerability stems…
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High 7.5
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in the TON Lite Server before v2024.09. The vulnerability arises…
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High 7.5
Suricata http1: infinite recursion in decompression
Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine. Starting in version 8.0.0 and prior to version 8.0.3, Suricata can crash with a stack overflow. Version 8.0.3 patches the issue. As a workaround, use default values for `request-body-limit` and `response-body-lim…