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
Magick's failure to limit the depth of SVG file reads caused a DoS attack.
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-12, using Magick to read a malicious SVG file resulted in a DoS attack. Version 7.1.2-12 fixes the issue.
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Medium 5.1
IBM Concert Information Disclosure
IBM Concert 1.0.0 through 2.0.0 could allow a local user with specific permission to obtain sensitive information from files due to uncontrolled recursive directory copying.
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Medium 6.5
IBM Engineering Requirements Management Doors Next denial of service
IBM Engineering Requirements Management Doors Next 7.0.2, 7.0.3, and 7.1 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service by uploading specially crafted files using uncontrolled recursion.
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Medium 6.5
Bucket vulnerable to infinite recursion when querying a bucket using the != operator
Bucket is a MediaWiki extension to store and retrieve structured data on articles. Prior to version 1.0.0, infinite recursion can occur if a user queries a bucket using the `!=` comparator. This will result in PHP's call stack limit exceeding, and/or increase…
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Medium 5.5
powercap: arm_scmi: Remove recursion while parsing zones
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powercap: arm_scmi: Remove recursion while parsing zones Powercap zones can be defined as arranged in a hierarchy of trees and when registering a zone with powercap_register_zone(), the kerne…
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Medium 5.5
crypto: hisilicon/qm - increase the memory of local variables
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crypto: hisilicon/qm - increase the memory of local variables Increase the buffer to prevent stack overflow by fuzz test. The maximum length of the qos configuration buffer is 256 bytes. Curr…
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Medium 5.3
express-xss-sanitizer has an unbounded recursion depth
The express-xss-sanitizer (aka Express XSS Sanitizer) package through 2.0.0 for Node.js has an unbounded recursion depth in sanitize in lib/sanitize.js for a JSON request body.
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Medium 6.2
Stack overflow in libxml2
Uncontrolled recursion in XPath evaluation in libxml2 up to and including version 2.9.14 allows a local attacker to cause a stack overflow via crafted expressions. XPath processing functions `xmlXPathRunEval`, `xmlXPathCtxtCompile`, and `xmlXPathEvalExpr` wer…
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Medium 6.7
Uncontrolled recursion for some TinyCBOR libraries maintained by Intel(R) before version 0.6.1 may allow an authenticat…
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Medium 4.4
Uncontrolled recursion for some TinyCBOR libraries maintained by Intel(R) before version 0.6.1 may allow an authenticat…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2025-50420 Public exploit
An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attackers to cause an infinite recursion via…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2025-46206 Public exploit
An issue in Artifex mupdf 1.25.6, 1.25.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an infinite recursio…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2025-48924 Public exploit
Apache Commons Lang, Apache Commons Lang: ClassUtils.getClass(...) can throw a StackOverflowError on very long inputs
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Commons Lang. This issue affects Apache Commons Lang: Starting with commons-lang:commons-lang 2.0 to 2.6, and, from org.apache.commons:commons-lang3 3.0 before 3.18.0. The methods ClassUtils.getClass(...) can thr…
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Medium 5.8
Nimbus JOSE + JWT is vulnerable to DoS attacks when processing deeply nested JSON
Connect2id Nimbus JOSE + JWT 10.0.x before 10.0.2 and 9.37.x before 9.37.4 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a deeply nested JSON object supplied in a JWT claim set, because of uncontrolled recursion. NOTE: this is independent of the G…
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Medium 6.5
Denial of Service via Uncontrolled Recursive JSON Parsing in JSONReader in run-llama/llama_index
The JSONReader in run-llama/llama_index versions 0.12.28 is vulnerable to a stack overflow due to uncontrolled recursive JSON parsing. This vulnerability allows attackers to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by submitting deeply nested JSON structures, leadin…
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Medium 5.9
Crash due to uncontrolled recursion in protobuf crate
The protobuf crate before 3.7.2 for Rust allows uncontrolled recursion in the protobuf::coded_input_stream::CodedInputStream::skip_group parsing of unknown fields in untrusted input.
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Medium 6.5
In ims service, there is a possible system crash due to incorrect error handling. This could lead to remote denial of s…
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Medium 6.5
Helm Allows A Specially Crafted JSON Schema To Cause A Stack Overflow
Helm is a package manager for Charts for Kubernetes. A JSON Schema file within a chart can be crafted with a deeply nested chain of references, leading to parser recursion that can exceed the stack size limit and trigger a stack overflow. This issue has been …
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Medium 4.2
Denial of Service in run-llama/llama_index
A vulnerability in the `KnowledgeBaseWebReader` class of the run-llama/llama_index repository, version latest, allows an attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by controlling a URL variable to contain the root URL. This leads to infinite recursive calls …
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Medium 5.8
Wire has Uncontrolled Recursion on Nested Groups
Square Wire before 5.2.0 does not enforce a recursion limit on nested groups in ByteArrayProtoReader32.kt and ProtoReader.kt.
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Medium 5.7
An issue was discovered in Datalust Seq before 2024.3.13545. An insecure default parsing depth limit allows stack consu…
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Medium 4.0
cpdf through 2.8 allows stack consumption via a crafted PDF document.
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Medium 5.3
smol-toml has a Denial of Service via malicious TOML document using deeply nested inline tables
### Summary An attacker can send a maliciously crafted TOML to cause the parser to crash because of a stack overflow caused by a deeply nested inline structure. A similar problem occurs when attempting to stringify deeply nested objects. The library does not …
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Medium 5.9
Next.js image optimization has Denial of Service condition
Next.js is a React Framework for the Web. Cersions on the 10.x, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x, and 14.x branches before version 14.2.7 contain a vulnerability in the image optimization feature which allows for a potential Denial of Service (DoS) condition which could lead…
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Medium 5.5
Denial-of-service due to unbounded pattern matching in Redis
Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. Authenticated users can trigger a denial-of-service by using specially crafted, long string match patterns on supported commands such as `KEYS`, `SCAN`, `PSUBSCRIBE`, `FUNCTION LIST`, `COMMAND…
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Medium 4.1
A room with itself as a its predecessor will freeze matrix-js-sdk
matrix-js-sdk is a Matrix messaging protocol Client-Server SDK for JavaScript. A malicious homeserver can craft a room or room structure such that the predecessors form a cycle. The matrix-js-sdk's getRoomUpgradeHistory function will infinitely recurse in thi…
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Medium 4.2
Denial-of-Service in LangChain SitemapLoader in langchain-ai/langchain
A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the `SitemapLoader` class of the `langchain-ai/langchain` repository, affecting all versions. The `parse_sitemap` method, responsible for parsing sitemaps and extracting URLs, lacks a mechanism to prevent infi…
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Medium 6.5
KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by Unicode sub/superscripts
KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using `\def` or `\newcommand` that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting `maxExpand` to avoid suc…
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Medium 6.5
KaTeX's maxExpand bypassed by \edef
KaTeX is a JavaScript library for TeX math rendering on the web. KaTeX users who render untrusted mathematical expressions could encounter malicious input using `\edef` that causes a near-infinite loop, despite setting `maxExpand` to avoid such loops. This ca…
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Medium 5.3
Showdownjs Denial of Service
An issue in the anchors subparser of Showdownjs versions <= 2.1.0 could allow a remote attacker to cause denial of service conditions.
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Medium 5.5
Denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder in Exiv2
Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.1: an unbounded recursion can cause Exiv2 to crash by exhausting the stack. The vul…
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Medium 6.8
Conversion of property names to strings can trigger infinite recursion
msgpackr is a fast MessagePack NodeJS/JavaScript implementation. Prior to 1.10.1, when decoding user supplied MessagePack messages, users can trigger stuck threads by crafting messages that keep the decoder stuck in a loop. The fix is available in v1.10.1. Ex…
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Medium 5.3
Dompdf possible DoS caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG images
Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter for PHP. When parsing SVG images Dompdf performs an initial validation to ensure that paths within the SVG are allowed. One of the validations is that the SVG document does not reference itself. However, prior to version 2.0…
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Medium 5.3
php-svg-lib possible DoS caused by infinite recursion when parsing SVG document
php-svg-lib is an SVG file parsing / rendering library. Prior to version 0.5.1, when parsing the attributes passed to a `use` tag inside an svg document, an attacker can cause the system to go to an infinite recursion. Depending on the system configuration an…
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Medium 5.3
Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark
CBOR dissector crash in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.6 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
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Medium 5.5
An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.8. lib/nlattr.c allows attackers to cause a denial of service (unb…
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Medium 5.9
Infinite recursion in Jettison leads to denial of service when creating a crafted JSONArray
An infinite recursion is triggered in Jettison when constructing a JSONArray from a Collection that contains a self-reference in one of its elements. This leads to a StackOverflowError exception being thrown.
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Medium 5.3
In dotCMS 5.x-22.06, it is possible to call the TempResource multiple times, each time requesting the dotCMS server to …
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Medium 5.5
GPAC MP4Box 2.1-DEV-rev649-ga8f438d20 has a segment fault (/stack overflow) due to infinite recursion in Media_GetSampl…
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Medium 5.9
TYPO3 subject to Uncontrolled Recursion resulting in Denial of Service
TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system. In versions prior to 9.5.38, 10.4.33, 11.5.20, and 12.1.1, requesting invalid or non-existing resources via HTTP triggers the page error handler, which again could retrieve content to be shown a…