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
506 results · Feed
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Medium 5.5
Uncontrolled recursion in DCMTK xml2dcm allows denial of service
Uncontrolled mutual recursion between DcmXMLParseHelper::parseDataSet() and DcmXMLParseHelper::parseSequence() in the XML-to-DICOM converter (dcmdata/libdcxml/xml2dcm.cc) of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion a…
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Medium 5.5
Uncontrolled recursion in DCMTK DICOMDIR parsing allows denial of service
Uncontrolled recursion in DcmDicomDir::moveRecordToTree() in dcmdata/libsrc/dcdicdir.cc of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted DICOMDIR file with a deeply chained sequence of dir…
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Medium 5.5
Uncontrolled recursion in the DCMTK bundled XML parser allows denial of service
Uncontrolled recursion in XMLNode::ParseXMLElement() and XMLNode::emptyTheNode() in the bundled XML parser (ofstd/libsrc/ofxml.cc) of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a crafted XML docu…
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High 7.5
Uncontrolled recursion in the DCMTK DICOM dataset parser allows unauthenticated remote denial of service
Uncontrolled recursion in DcmSequenceOfItems::read() and DcmItem::read() in the dcmdata library of OFFIS DCMTK 3.7.0 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (stack exhaustion and process crash) via a DICOM dataset containing dee…
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High 7.5
Excelize ANCHORARRAY: mutually-referencing array formulas recurse unboundedly via re-entrant CalcCellValue, causing a fatal stack overflow
Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. From 2.8.1 to 2.11.0, ANCHORARRAY recursively calls the exported CalcCellValue function, creating a fresh calculation context at each cycle and bypassing in-flight and ite…
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Medium 5.3
ImageMagick: Denial of service with crafted XMP profile
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-30 and 6.9.13-55, a crafted XMP profile can reach a recursion limit that is handled as a fatal condition instead of an ordinary exception, terminatin…
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Medium 5.3
ImageMagick: Stack Overflown CALS decoder due to missing depth check.
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-30 and 6.9.13-55, a missing recursion-depth check in the CALS decoder allows a crafted CALS image to exhaust the call stack and terminate the process…
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Low 3.7
yawkat LZ4 Java: LZ4BlockInputStream with stopOnEmptyBlock=false recurses once per empty block, causing StackOverflowError
yawkat LZ4 Java provides LZ4 compression for Java. Prior to 1.11.4, net.jpountz.lz4.LZ4BlockInputStream configured with stopOnEmptyBlock set to false handles each well-formed empty LZ4Block by recursively calling refill(), allowing a long sequence of empty bl…
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High 8.7
StableLib: Stack exhaustion denial of service via deeply nested CBOR arrays, maps, or tags
StableLib is a stable library of useful TypeScript and JavaScript code. Prior to 2.0.4, the @stablelib/cbor decoder recursively processes nested CBOR arrays, maps, and tags through _decodeValue() without enforcing a maximum nesting depth. A sufficiently deep …
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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 request that causes the server to construct and process a deeply nested data structure with no bound on recursion depth. Elasticsearch contains an uncontro…
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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, deeply nested request submitted to the aggregation feature of the search API. Elasticsearch contains an uncontrolled recursion weakness in its search aggr…
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Medium 6.5
Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with low privileges to terminate an Elasticsearch node, resulting in denial of service, via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130).
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Medium —
fast-copy: Stack exhaustion in fast-copy when copying deeply-nested values
## Summary `fast-copy` traverses values recursively with no bound on depth. Copying a sufficiently deeply-nested value exhausts the JavaScript call stack and throws a native `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded` from inside the library. ## Details Bo…
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High 8.7
Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift: skip() does not apply the recursion limit (Python accelerator, PHP, Perl, Lua, Smalltalk, OCaml)
The protocol skip routine in several Apache Thrift bindings did not apply the binding's recursion limit, so a message that nests unknown fields deeply enough can exhaust the stack. Affected: the Python C++ accelerator (the pure-Python protocols are not affect…
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High 8.7
Apache Thrift: TFramedTransport and THeaderTransport re-enter Read once per frame that carries no payload (Go)
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Thrift go bindings. Both Go transports satisfy a read out of a buffered frame and, when that frame yields no payload bytes, read the next frame and call `Read` again instead of looping. A peer produces such a fra…
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High 8.2
Apache Thrift: php `--gen php:inlined` struct readers (and `TProtocol::skipBinary`) have no recursion-depth guard
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Thrift PHP bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes the issue.
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High 8.2
Apache Thrift: Erlang generated struct reads have no recursion-depth guard (unbounded memory)
Uncontrolled Recursion, Allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Apache Thrift Erlang bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes the issue.
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High 8.2
Apache Thrift: c_glib generated struct readers have no recursion-depth guard (native stack exhaustion)
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Thrift c_glib bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes the issue.
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High 8.7
Apache Thrift, Apache Thrift: TProtocolUtil.skip follows peer-chosen nesting to any depth the stack allows (Dart, Java ME)
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Thrift Dart and Java ME bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes the issue.
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High 8.7
Unbounded ASN.1 nesting depth causes process-terminating stack overflow
Uncontrolled recursion in the ASN.1 parser (Asn1InputStream, Asn1StreamParser) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted ASN.1 encoding of deeply nested const…
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High 7.5
Uncontrolled recursion in the Ion reader in Amazon Ion Python
Uncontrolled recursion in the Ion reader in Amazon Ion Python before 0.15.0 might allow a remote unauthenticated actor to crash the application using the library, resulting in a denial of service, via a crafted, deeply nested Ion value. To remediate this issu…
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Medium 4.3
GraphicsMagick WPG File wpg.c ExtractPostscript recursion
A vulnerability was detected in GraphicsMagick up to 1.3.47. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ExtractPostscript of the file coders/wpg.c of the component WPG File Handler. Performing a manipulation results in uncontrolled recursion. The attack m…
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High 8.7
Apache PLC4X: Go binding: unbounded allocation and framing failures on wire-controlled lengths
Integer Overflow, Improper Validation of Array Index, Uncontrolled Recursion and Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in the Go implementation of Apache PLC4X (PLC4Go) allow a malicious device, or an attacker able to inject network traffic, to crash or…
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High 8.7
Apache PLC4X, Apache PLC4X: Pre-authentication resource exhaustion in the OPC UA driver and the Java SPI parser
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value, Allocation of Resources Without Limits, and Uncontrolled Recursion in the Java implementation of Apache PLC4X (PLC4J) allow a malicious or impersonated device to exhaust the memory or stack of the client applicatio…
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High 7.1
Uncontrolled recursion in the Gosub browser engine (gosub-engine) through 0.1.0 and main before commit 46868b3 allows a…
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High 7.5
Apache XMLSchema: Denial of service through cyclic schema definitions in the schema walker
The Apache XmlSchema walker (xmlschema-walker) doesn't detect cycles in type derivation, substitution groups, model groups or attribute groups. A malicious schema with such a cycle can make the walker recurse until the stack overflows, causing a denial of ser…
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High 7.5
Apache XMLSchema: Denial of service through deeply nested schema structures
Apache XmlSchema doesn't limit how deeply schema structures can be nested when it builds its schema model, so a malicious schema can make parsing recurse until the stack overflows. This causes a denial of service. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2…
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High 7.5
Apache XMLSchema: Denial of service through unbounded recursion when resolving schema imports and includes
Apache XmlSchema doesn't limit how deeply schema imports and includes can be nested, so a malicious schema can make parsing recurse until the stack overflows. This causes a denial of service. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.3.3, which fixes this…
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High 7.5
Nest: Remote process termination via a deeply nested microservice message pattern
Nest is a framework for building scalable Node.js server-side applications. Prior to 11.2.4 and 12.0.2, a single message with a deeply nested object in its pattern can terminate a NestJS microservice using the TCP or RabbitMQ transport. ServerTCP#handleMessag…
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High 7.5
brace-expansion: DoS via uncontrolled recursion on nested brace groups causing stack exhaustion
The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.20, 2.1.6, 3.0.8, and 5.0.11, deeply nested brace groups cause expand_() to recurse once per nesting level at comma-member and single-set expansion sit…
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High 7.5
brace-expansion: DoS via uncontrolled recursion in parseCommaParts causing stack exhaustion
The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.19, 2.1.5, 3.0.7, and 5.0.10, crafted brace patterns can exhaust the native stack in parseCommaParts because parseCommaParts recursively processes the …
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Medium 5.3
PyJWT: Uncaught RecursionError in jwt.decode() on deeply nested token header
PyJWT is a Python implementation of JSON Web Token standards. From 2.13.0 until 2.14.0, PyJWS._load in jwt/api_jws.py is affected because parser catches ValueError but not RecursionError. This occurs when a deeply nested token header reaches json.loads. As a …
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Medium 5.9
Nodemailer before 10.0.2 Stack Exhaustion via Nested Recipient Arrays
Nodemailer before 10.0.2 fails to properly flatten deeply nested arrays in recipient fields such as to, cc, and bcc, allowing attackers to cause stack exhaustion. Attackers can supply a deeply nested JSON recipient array that triggers recursive Array.toString…
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High 7.5
SOAP: Unbounded Recursion in Server-Side cleanup_xml_node
cleanup_xml_node() in the SOAP XML parser recurses once per XML nesting level with no depth limit. An unauthenticated attacker can post a SOAP request containing tens of thousands of nested elements to any SoapServer endpoint, exhaust the stack and crash the …
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High 7.5
Apache Qpid Broker-J: Unbounded type nesting can lead to stack overflow pre-authentication in AMQP 0-8/0-9/0-9-1 field-table processing
A pre-authentication attacker could leverage type nesting to cause a StackOverflowError potentially leading to denial of service. This issue affects Apache Qpid Broker-J: through 10.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 10.1.1, which fixes the issu…
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Medium 6.5
Wazuh: Unbounded Recursion in os_xml `_getattributes()` Causes analysisd Worker Thread Stack Exhaustion
Wazuh is an open-source security platform providing unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads. From 3.8.0 until 4.14.7, the _getattributes() function in src/os_xml/os_xml.c recursively processes every XML attribute without a depth limi…
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High 8.7
Moquette deeply nested MQTT topics can cause stack exhaustion
Moquette is a lightweight Java MQTT broker. Prior to 0.18.1, Moquette does not limit the depth of topic names and topic filters before processing them through recursive CTrie insertion and matching operations. A remote client can publish or subscribe with a d…
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Low 2.3
Denial-of-service (stack-exhaustion) vulnerability in QXmlStreamReader::readElementText() impacts Qt
Uncontrolled recursion in QXmlStreamReader::readElementText() in Qt Group Qt allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash via stack exhaustion) via a crafted XML document.
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Medium 5.3
js-toml: Uncontrolled recursion in `load()` causes `RangeError` (stack exhaustion) on deeply nested input
js-toml is a TOML parser for JavaScript. Prior to 1.1.3, load() does not bound nesting or dotted-key depth in the recursive parser at src/load/parser.ts or the interpreter at src/load/interpreter.ts, so deeply nested arrays, deeply nested inline tables, or lo…
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High 7.8
Bridge | Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674)
Bridge is affected by an Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. Exploitation of this issue requires user in…