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CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition

Base Incomplete

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Source: MITRE CWE-835

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  • High 7.5

    Denial of Service vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, ABAP Platform and SAP Web Dispatcher

    SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP, ABAP Platform, and SAP Web Dispatcher do not sufficiently handle resource consumption when processing certain requests. An unauthenticated attacker could send specially crafted requests to the affected component, causing…

  • Medium 5.5

    FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Infinite Loop Denial of Service via IMC/IAC Decoder

    FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in bit_allocation() in libavcodec/imc.c that allows attackers to hang decoding by supplying audio blocks with a negative bit budget. Attackers can craft IMC or IAC audio files that drive freebits ne…

  • High 7.5

    Hickory DNS NSEC3 Closest-Encloser Proof Unbounded Loop Denial of Service

    Hickory DNS hickory-proto 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-net before 0.26.1 contain an unbounded loop vulnerability in DnssecDnsHandle NSEC3 closest-encloser proof validation when the SOA owner is not an ancestor of the QNAME. Upstream attackers can…

  • High 7.5

    Hickory DNS 0.26.0-beta.1 before 0.26.2 Resource Exhaustion DoS via NameServerPool::try_send TC-Retry Loop

    Hickory DNS hickory-resolver 0.26.0-beta.1 before 0.26.2 contains an unbounded retry loop in NameServerPool::try_send, which re-queues truncated (TC) responses without checking the answering transport or counting iterations. A malicious authoritative server r…

  • Medium 4.3

    OpenBMB Internet of Agents Collaboration Layer communication_layer.py launch_goal infinite loop

    A vulnerability was detected in OpenBMB Internet of Agents up to 9d78e88e47160eb42ee1ee8538c05e1c2c47877a. This affects the function launch_goal of the file im_client/communication/communication_layer.py of the component Collaboration Layer. Performing a mani…

  • Medium 5.5

    Fluxbox through 1.3.7 Infinite Loop via Menu::updateMenu() Style Geometry

    Fluxbox through 1.3.7 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in Menu::updateMenu() in src/FbTk/Menu.cc that allows attackers to hang the window manager via crafted style geometry values. Attackers can supply a style with an oversized unbounded menu.titleHeig…

  • Medium 6.5

    ImageMagick before 7.1.2-35 and 6.9.13-60 Infinite Loop via SVG Decoder

    ImageMagick before 7.1.2-35 and 6.9.13-60 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in the SVG decoder because QueueAuthenticPixelCacheNexus in MagickCore/cache.c fails to validate requested region width and height. Attackers can supply a crafted SVG image that…

  • High 7.5

    Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unauthenticated jvm termination via saml 1.1 authoritybinding parsing loop

    A flaw was found in the SAML 1.1 assertion parser of Keycloak, a tool used for identity and access management. The issue occurs when the parser handles a specific element called AuthorityBinding within an authentication statement. Due to an incomplete fix for…

  • High 7.5

    Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unauthenticated cpu exhaustion via saml 1.1 keyinfo infinite loop

    A flaw was found in the SAML 1.1 XML parsing logic of Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution. The issue occurs when the parser encounters unexpected elements within a security token's key information section, causing the processing t…

  • High 7.5

    In the NAS Authentication Request message decoding procedure, a missing lower bound check causes an infinite loop, lead…

  • High 7.7

    Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Nested Variable Substitution Loop

    Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in substituteVariablesIfAny that allows low-privileged users to hang the admission webhook via self-referential variable templates. Attackers can create resources whose annotations re-introduce …

  • High 7.5

    Moleculer: Unauthenticated Denial of Service via negative length field in the TCP transporter packet parser

    Moleculer is a progressive microservices framework for Node.js. Prior to 0.14.36 and 0.15.2, Parser._write in src/transporters/tcp/parser.js used Buffer.prototype.readInt32BE to read a signed packet length, so a remote unauthenticated peer could supply a nega…

  • Medium 5.9

    BIG-HKSCS decoding hang on crafted input

    Converting crafted BIG-HKSCS input to UCS-4 or the internal wide character encoding, for example with iconv, in the GNU C Library version 2.18 through 2.31 may result in the converter making no progress, causing the calling application to hang.

  • Medium 6.5

    FreeRDP before 3.32.2 Infinite Loop via Truncated WebSocket Frame

    FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in websocket_context_read that fails to handle a zero BIO result with payload outstanding. A malicious RD Gateway can send a truncated WebSocket frame followed by a TLS close_notify, causing a clie…

  • Medium 5.5

    sngrep through 1.9.0 Infinite Loop DoS via Crafted NFLOG TLV

    sngrep through 1.9.0 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in capture_packet_reasm_ip() in src/capture.c that allows attackers to cause denial of service via crafted NFLOG TLVs. Attackers can supply a pcap file with link type NFLOG containing a non-payload …

  • High 7.5

    CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow an infinite loop on a short request body when $DISABLE_UPLOADS is set

    CGI versions before 5.00 for Perl allow an infinite loop on a short request body when $DISABLE_UPLOADS is set. When $CGI::PUTDATA_UPLOAD or an upload hook is set, read_postdata_putdata takes a request body that is not a form submission. With $CGI::DISABLE_UPL…

  • Medium 4.3

    isomorphic-git: Circular symbolic references cause non-terminating resolution (DoS)

    isomorphic-git is a pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node.js and browsers. Prior to 1.38.6, isomorphic-git persists server-supplied circular symref= capabilities through updateRemoteRefs, and GitRefManager.resolve() follows the resulting loose symbol…

  • Medium 4.3

    phpMyAdmin ShapeFile SHP File loadFromFile infinite loop

    A vulnerability has been found in phpMyAdmin ShapeFile up to 4.0.1. Impacted is the function ShapeRecord::loadFromFile of the component SHP File Handler. Such manipulation leads to infinite loop. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has been discl…

  • Medium 6.5

    FreeRDP before 3.32.2 CPU Exhaustion via RDG Control Packet

    FreeRDP before 3.32.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in rdg_process_control_packet that allows a malicious RD Gateway to exhaust client CPU by sending an incomplete keepalive control packet. Attackers completing the RDG tunnel-open exchange then s…

  • Medium 5.3

    Amlogic DroidLogic SubTitleService Infinite Loop via get_vob_spu()

    The VobSub subtitle decoder libsub_vob (part of the Amlogic DroidLogic SubTitleService), as shipped on Nexbox A95X (Amlogic S905X) TV boxes, contains an infinite loop vulnerability in get_vob_spu() that allows unauthenticated network attackers or local users …

  • High 7.5

    CVE-2026-120596

    A remotely exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the TCP options parser of the Nut/Net TCP/IP stack included in Nut/OS, developed by Ethernut/Egnite. Nut/OS releases up to version 5.1 are affected. An unauthenticated attacker can send a single…

  • Medium 5.5

    Kvazaar through 2.3.2 Infinite Loop DoS via Y4M Header Parser

    Kvazaar through 2.3.2 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in read_header() in src/encmain.c that allows attackers to hang the command-line encoder by supplying a truncated Y4M header. Attackers can provide a crafted .y4m file lacking a terminating newline…

  • Medium 5.5

    imagecodecs 2026.3.6 through 2026.10.10 Infinite Loop via ccittfax4_decode()

    imagecodecs 2026.3.6 through 2026.10.10 contains an infinite loop vulnerability in ccitt_fax4_decode_size() that allows attackers to hang the calling process by supplying a crafted CCITT Group 4 stream. Attackers can provide an 8-byte G4 stream lacking EOFB t…

  • High 7.5

    Json-glib: json-glib: infinite loop in json_path_query() with negative jsonpath slice step

    A flaw was found in json-glib. The JSONPath slice evaluator used by json_path_query() can enter an infinite loop when given a slice expression with a negative step. An application that evaluates attacker-controlled JSONPath expressions can be forced into a ha…

  • Medium 5.5

    LibreDWG: unbounded allocation in pre-R13 DWG entity decoding

    LibreDWG is a free C library to read and write DWG files. Prior to 0.14.8413, a crafted pre-R13 DWG can make `decode_preR13_entities()` in `src/decode.c` enter a nonterminating loop that allocates a new object each iteration. `decode_preR13` in `src/decode_r1…

  • High 7.1

    pypdf: Possible infinite loop when cloning dictionaries

    pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.4, pypdf can enter an infinite loop when cloning or duplicating a crafted cyclic DictionaryObject. Clone traversal checked generated destination references rather than the original source …

  • High 7.1

    pypdf: Possible infinite loop when hitting EOF in standard xref table during trailer search

    pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.21.4, pypdf can enter an infinite loop while opening a crafted incomplete PDF whose standard cross-reference table reaches the end of the file without a trailer. The trailer search can repeat…

  • Low 2.9

    Forge: Denial of Service via infinite loop in BigInteger.modInverse() with negative input (incomplete fix of CVE-2026-33891)

    Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used BigInteger.prototype.modInverse(), bnModInverse(), lib/jsbn.js, RSA public exponent e to process the relevant…

  • High 8.7

    Infinite loop when reading PDPortDataCheck record of subslot 0

    P-Net before 1.0.3 enters an infinite loop when handling a read request for the PDPortDataCheck record with subslot 0 (whole module). The loop over the ports never advanced to the next port, so the request never completes and the device stops responding. A re…

  • Critical 9.1

    Apache Kafka: Kafka Streams StreamThread hang from integer overflow in stream-time punctuation

    Kafka Streams derives its stream-time clock from record timestamps. PunctuationSchedule.next() computed the next punctuation time as timestamp + (intervalsMissed + 1) * interval with no overflow check. A record with a timestamp at or near Long.MAX_VALUE advan…

  • High 7.5

    Session Smart Router: Integer overflow causes denial of service during TLS certificate inspection

    An Integer Overflow vulnerability in the DPI certificate scanner in Juniper Networks Session Smart Router allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a specially crafted TLS server certificate.

  • High 7.5

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Telerik Document Processing Libraries RadSpreadProcessing and RadSpreadStreamProcessing

    In Progress® Telerik® Document Processing Libraries prior to version 2026.3.1027, uncontrolled recursion, infinite loop, unchecked loop condition and inefficient regular expression vulnerabilities in RadSpreadProcessing and RadSpreadStreamProcessing allow an …

  • High 7.5

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Telerik Document Processing Libraries RadPdfProcessing and AI Document Summarization and Question Answering

    In Progress® Telerik® Document Processing Libraries prior to version 2026.3.1027, uncontrolled recursion, infinite loop, inefficient algorithmic complexity and resource allocation vulnerabilities in RadPdfProcessing and AI document summarization and question …

  • High 7.5

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Telerik Document Processing Libraries RadWordsProcessing

    In Progress® Telerik® Document Processing Libraries prior to version 2026.3.1027, uncontrolled recursion, inefficient algorithmic complexity and infinite loop vulnerabilities in RadWordsProcessing allow an unauthenticated attacker to terminate or hang the hos…

  • Medium 4.3

    russh: peer-declared zero maximum packet size permanently stalls channel writes (silent AsyncWrite hang)

    russh is a Rust SSH client and server library that includes an SSH agent protocol implementation. From 0.60.0 until 0.65.0, channel-open parsing accepts a peer-declared maximum_packet_size of zero and passes it into ChannelTx::poll_writable in russh/src/chann…

  • Medium 6.5

    libXtst RECORD EnableContext Reply Endless Loop

    A malicious X server could send malformed  RECORD EnableContext reolies that can cause a X client using the parse_reply_call_callback function in libXtst before 1.2.6 to enter a endless loop.

  • High 7.5

    Seroval: fromJSON deserializer trusts sequence doneAt (unauthenticated event-loop DoS)

    Seroval facilitates JavaScript value stringification, including complex structures beyond JSON.stringify capabilities. Prior to 1.6.8, fromJSON and fromCrossJSON do not validate a sequence node's done index. A crafted done index can create an iterator that ne…

  • Low 2.1

    Infinite loop in Xpdf due to missing validation in JPEG 2000 decoder

    Infinite loop in Xpdf 4.06 and earlier, due to incorrect validation of progression order field in JPEG 2000 image.

  • High 8.7

    HTTP/2 WINDOW_UPDATE and SETTINGS frames reset the request body read timeout in Bandit

    Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the HTTP/2 request body reader of mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to hold stream processes open indefinitely via WINDOW_UPDATE or empty SETTINGS frames sent while a…

  • Medium 4.9

    Twisted: Denial of Service in the Twisted IMAP4 Server via a Negative Literal Size in SEARCH

    Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 26.10.0rc1, twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Server reaches twisted.mail.imap4.parseNestedParens with a negative literal size in an authenticated SEARCH command after the c…