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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Medium 5.3
Potential denial-of-service vulnerability via nested geometry collections
An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.9 and 5.2 before 5.2.18. GeoDjango's `django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSGeometry` is subject to a potential denial-of-service when parsing deeply nested `GEOMETRYCOLLECTION` objects supplied as well-known text (WKT),…
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Medium 5.1
Misskey: Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursion in Theme Compilation
Misskey is an open source, federated social media platform. IVersions 8.63.0 and later, but prior to 2026.5.4, contain a vulnerability that can cause the Misskey web client to slow down or crash when it applies a malformed theme. This issue has been fixed in …
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Medium 6.9
axios 0.31.1 before 0.33.0 and 1.15.1 before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via maxDepth bypass
axios versions 0.31.1 before 0.33.0 and 1.15.1 before 1.18.0 contain an incomplete depth-limit bypass in toFormData.js when serializing objects with top-level keys ending in '{}'. Attackers who control object keys and nested values passed to axios form or par…
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Medium 6.3
axios 0.28.0 before 1.18.0 Denial of Service via formDataToJSON
axios versions 0.28.0 and later contain uncontrolled recursion in formDataToJSON when processing FormData field names with deeply nested bracket segments. Attackers can supply FormData with field names containing thousands of nested brackets to exhaust the Ja…
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Medium 6.5
Courier IMAP < 6.0.1 Mail Server < 2.0.2 Stack Overflow DoS via Nested SEARCH Queries
Courier IMAP before 6.0.1 and Courier Mail Server before 2.0.2 allow authenticated IMAP users to crash the imapd process via deeply nested parenthesized SEARCH queries. The SEARCH command parser (alloc_search_key in searchinfo.C) recursively descends on neste…
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Medium 5.3
ggml-org llama.cpp JSON-Schema-to-GBNF Conversion json-schema-to-grammar.cpp transform recursion
A flaw has been found in ggml-org llama.cpp e15efe0. This vulnerability affects the function transform of the file common/json-schema-to-grammar.cpp of the component JSON-Schema-to-GBNF Conversion. This manipulation causes uncontrolled recursion. The attack m…
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Medium 6.5
Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted search request submitted by a low-privileged authenticated user. A user with read-level index access can submit a request that triggers unbounded recursive…
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Medium 6.5
SurrealDB before 3.1.0 Denial of Service nested type annotations
SurrealDB before 3.1.0 fails to enforce recursion depth limits in the type/kind parser when processing nested type annotations. Authenticated attackers can send queries with deeply nested type annotations to exhaust server memory and crash the process.
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Medium 6.5
SurrealDB before 3.1.5 Denial of Service via deep operator chains
SurrealDB versions before 3.1.5 contain a denial of service vulnerability where authenticated users can crash the server with queries containing long chains of operators. Attackers can submit queries with tens of thousands of chained operators that create unb…
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Medium 6.0
SurrealDB before 2.2.2 Memory Exhaustion via Nested Functions
SurrealDB before 2.2.2 with scripting enabled fails to properly enforce recursion limits when native functions contain embedded JavaScript that issues new queries. Authenticated attackers can bypass the recursion limit by chaining native and JavaScript functi…
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Medium 6.5
SurrealDB before 1.1.0 Uncontrolled Recursion Denial of Service
SurrealDB versions before 1.1.0 fail to enforce recursion depth limits when parsing nested SurrealQL statements including IF, RELATE, and attribute access idioms. Authorized attackers can submit queries with excessive nesting depth to cause stack overflow and…
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Medium 6.5
Zeroconf: Unbounded recursion in DNS compression-pointer decoder allows LAN-local denial of service
Zeroconf is a pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery. Prior to 0.149.5, DNSIncoming._decode_labels_at_offset recurses once per DNS-name compression pointer, and a single mDNS packet carrying chained pointers can trigger a RecursionError…
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Medium 5.3
Trapster Community: Unauthenticated malformed DNS compression pointers crash per-packet honeypot handler
## Summary `trapster.libs.dns.decode_labels()` decodes DNS names from attacker-supplied UDP packets and recurses **once per RFC 1035 compression pointer** with **no cycle detection and no depth bound**. A single unauthenticated UDP datagram sent to the DNS ho…
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Medium 5.3
Mistune directives/include: mutual `.. include::` recursion crashes the renderer with `RecursionError`, denial of service via two attacker-controlled markdown files
Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, the Include directive in src/mistune/directives/include.py detects only direct self-includes and not indirect cycles, allowing two markdown files that include each other to trigge…
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Medium 6.5
Mojo::JSON versions before 9.47 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded recursion in the pure-Perl decoder
Mojo::JSON versions before 9.47 for Perl allow memory exhaustion via unbounded recursion in the pure-Perl decoder. The pure-Perl decode path (`_decode_value` dispatching to `_decode_array` and `_decode_object`) recurses with no depth limit, so a small deeply …
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Medium 5.3
ImageMagick: Stack Overflow in MVG decoder due to missing depth check.
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-51 and 7.1.2-26, a missing depth check in the MVG decoder will result in a stack overflow when a crafted image is provided. This issue has …
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Medium 6.5
Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can submit a specially crafted query that causes excessive resource consumption while the request is processed, which…
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Medium 6.9
Uncontrolled recursion over deeply nested Markdown crashes the BEAM in mdex
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in leandrocp mdex allows denial of service via deeply nested Markdown input. mdex converts between an Elixir %MDEx.Document{} struct and Comrak's internal AST using two mutually recursive Rust functions, ex_document_to_com…
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Medium 6.2
P11-kit: stack exhaustion via unbounded recursion in rpc attribute parsing
A flaw was found in p11-kit. The RPC message attribute parsing functions p11_rpc_message_get_attribute() and p11_rpc_message_get_attribute_array_value() form a mutually-recursive call chain with no recursion depth limit when processing nested CKA_WRAP_TEMPLAT…
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Medium 6.8
jq: stack overflow in deep structural equality
jq is a command-line JSON processor. Prior to 1.8.2, comparing two sufficiently deeply nested arrays with the == operator exhausts the C stack on jq's ordinary command-line surface, resulting in denial of service via stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion).…
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Medium 6.5
MuPDF < 1.27.0-rc1 Stack Exhaustion DoS via EPUB CSS Rendering
MuPDF before 1.27.0-rc1 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the EPUB CSS rendering engine that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying a maliciously crafted EPUB file with deeply nested HTML elements and inline CSS st…
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Medium 6.3
MessagePack-CSharp: JSON conversion APIs can recurse without consistent depth enforcement
MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, MessagePack-CSharp's JSON conversion helpers contain multiple recursion paths that do not consistently enforce a depth limit. These paths are in the JSON conversion component r…
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Medium 6.3
MessagePack-CSharp: DynamicUnionResolver generated deserializers miss depth enforcement
MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.301 and 3.1.7, runtime-generated union deserializers emitted by DynamicUnionResolver do not call MessagePackSecurity.DepthStep(ref reader) and do not decrement reader.Depth around recursive d…
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Medium 5.3
protobufjs: Schema-derived names can shadow runtime-significant properties
protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 8.6.0 and 7.6.3, protobufjs accepted certain schema-derived names that could collide with properties used by protobufjs runtime helpers. The known affected names are fields name…
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Medium 5.5
Avast antivirus stack overflow when scanning a malformed PDF file
Stack overflow vulnerability due to uncontrolled recursion in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed PDF file may allow Denial-of-Service of the antivirus process. This issue affects Avast Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, Norton Antivirus, Avast One, and Avast Bu…
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Medium 5.5
Avast antivirus infinite recursion when scanning a malformed PE file
Uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in Avast Antivirus when scanning a malformed Windows PE file may allow Denial-of-Service of the antivirus process. This issue affects Avast Antivirus, AVG Antivirus, Norton Antivirus, Avast One, and Avast Business Antiviru…
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Medium 5.5
ImageMagick: Stack Overflow in MVG decoder
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-49 and 7.1.2-24, a crafted MVG file could result in a stack overflow due to a missing depth or visited-set check. This issue has been patch…
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Medium 6.2
ImageMagick: Stack overflow in fx operation
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-23, due to a missing depth check a stack overflow can occur in the fx operation by passing a crafted argument. This issue has been patched in…
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Medium 5.3
ImageMagick: Policy Bypass in MNG coder could
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-47 and 7.1.2-22, because of a missing check in the MNG coder it would be possible to read more images than the list limit policy would allo…
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Medium 5.3
Strawberry GraphQL has a Circular Fragment Reference DOS
Strawberry GraphQL is a library for creating GraphQL APIs. In versions 0.71.0 through 0.315.6, the QueryDepthLimiter extension is vulnerable to an Application-level DOS due to a lack of cycle detection in fragment spreads. When a query contains circular fragm…
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Medium 6.1
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Samsung Open Source rlottie allows Oversized Serialized Data Payloads. This iss…
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Medium 6.1
Access of uninitialized pointer, Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Samsung Open Source rlottie allows Pointer Man…
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Medium 5.7
Self Routing guard bypassed via function composition
Under infinite recursion in the routing layer, request-handling can cause OOM error. Affected Spring Products and Versions: Spring Cloud Function 3.2.x: versions prior to 3.2.16 Spring Cloud Function 4.1.x: versions prior to 4.1.10 Spring Cloud Function 4.2.x…
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Medium 6.5
go-billy: Lack of depth and cycle detection in symlink resolution may lead to infinite loops and resource exhaustion
Billy is an interface filesystem abstraction for Go. Prior to versions 5.9.0 and 6.0.0-alpha.1, multiple components may improperly handle crafted or malformed input, resulting in panics, infinite loops, uncontrolled recursion, or excessive resource consumptio…
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Medium 6.2
go-ipld-prime: DAG-CBOR and DAG-JSON decoders unbounded recursion depth
go-ipld-prime is an implementation of the InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) spec interfaces, a batteries-included codec implementations of IPLD for CBOR and JSON, and tooling for basic operations on IPLD objects. Prior to 0.23.0, the DAG-CBOR and DAG-JSON dec…
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Medium 6.5
IBM i is Affected by a Denial of Service Vulnerability []
IBM i 7.6, 7.5, 7.4, and 7.3 s vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack due to uncontrolled recursion in the Integrated Language Environment (ILE) compiler. An authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by compiling specially crafted source code …
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Medium 6.3
eml_parser: Recursion DoS via nested message/rfc822 attachments
eml_parser serves as a python module for parsing eml files and returning various information found in the e-mail as well as computed information. Prior to 3.0.1, EmlParser.get_raw_body_text() recurses unconditionally for every nested message/rfc822 attachment…
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Medium 5.5
WRL File Parsing Memory Exhaustion in Autodesk 3ds Max
A maliciously crafted WRL file, when parsed through Autodesk 3ds Max, can cause a Stack Exhaustion vulnerability, leading to a denial-of-service condition.
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Medium 4.3
postcss-selector-parser AST Serialization container.js toString recursion
A vulnerability was determined in postcss-selector-parser up to 6.1.2/7.1.2. Affected is the function toString of the file src/selectors/container.js of the component AST Serialization. Executing a manipulation can lead to uncontrolled recursion. It is possib…
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Medium 5.5
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Samsung Open Source Escargot allows Excessive Allocation. This issue affects Es…