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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Medium 5.5
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Samsung Open Source Escargot allows Oversized Serialized Data Payloads. This is…
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Medium 5.9
PHP Stack Exhaustion
Stack exhaustion vulnerability in the MongoDB PHP driver can cause application crashes when processing deeply nested BSON documents in unusual circumstances when the source of these BSON documents is not MongoDB Server.
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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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Medium 5.3
Apache Commons Configuration: StackOverflowError for YAML input with cycles
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Commons. When processing an untrusted configuration file, Commons Configuration will throw a StackOverflowError for YAML input with cycles. This issue affects Apache Commons: from 2.2 before 2.15.0. Users are rec…
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Medium 5.3
protobufjs: Denial of Service via unbounded recursive JSON descriptor expansion
protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.5.8 and 8.2.0, protobufjs could recurse without a depth limit while expanding nested JSON descriptors through Root.fromJSON() and Namespace.addJSON(). A crafted JSON descripto…
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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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Low 3.3
NanaZip: Uncontrolled recursion in NanaZip UFS directory traversal causes stack exhaustion
NanaZip is an open source file archive. From 5.0.1252.0 to before 6.0.1698.0, an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability exists in the UFS/UFS2 filesystem image parser in NanaZip. The function GetAllPaths recurses into subdirectories without any depth limit or v…
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Low 3.3
NanaZip: Uncontrolled recursion in NanaZip Electron ASAR parser causes stack exhaustion
NanaZip is an open source file archive. From 5.0.1252.0 to before 6.0.1698.0, an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability exists in the Electron Archive (ASAR) parser in NanaZip. When opening a crafted .asar file with deeply nested JSON in the header, both nlohma…
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Medium 6.1
net: Stack Overflow with Ping (to own IP Address) via Shell
Issuing an ICMP ping via the `net ping` shell command to a device's own IPv4 address causes the network stack to recursively re-enter the input path on the same system work-queue stack. Because the destination is recognized as a local address, both the echo r…
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Medium 6.2
jq: Stack Overflow in Recursive Object Merge
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, unbounded recursion in jv_object_merge_recursive() allows a crafted jq program to crash the process with a segfault. The function is reachable through the * operator when both operands are objects.
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Medium 5.4
jq: stack overflow in module loading on mutual `include`
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.2rc1 and earlier, the ordinary module loader recurses without cycle detection when two otherwise valid modules include each other.
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Medium 5.4
jq: Stack overflow via unbounded recursion in jv_contains
jq is a command-line JSON processor. In 1.8.1 and earlier, jv_contains recurses into nested arrays/objects with no depth limit. With a sufficiently nested input structure (built programmatically with reduce, since the JSON parser caps at depth 10000), the C s…
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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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Medium 5.5
Uncontrolled Recursion in Wireshark
Monero protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service