Weakness (CWE)
CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.
Source: MITRE CWE-835
619 results · Feed
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High 7.1
Python Liquid: Infinite loop when parsing malformed `{% case %}` tags
Python Liquid is a Python engine for the Liquid template language. Prior to 2.2.1, given a malformed {% case %} tag without an associated {% when %} or {% else %} block and no terminating {% endcase %} tag, Python Liquid hangs in an infinite loop at parse tim…
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Medium 4.6
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition in GNU patch
GNU patch is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) due to improper validation of hunk (single block of changes in diff) line offsets in unified-diff input. A specially crafted patch can specify an extremely large line number, causing the application to ente…
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High 7.5
CoreWCF: Pre-authentication infinite-loop CPU exhaustion in CoreWCF net.tcp / net.pipe / net.uds framing handshake
CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. Prior to 1.8.1 and 1.9.1, an unauthenticated remote attacker that can reach a NetTcpBinding, NetNamedPipeBinding, or UnixDomainSocketBinding endpoint can trigger pre…
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Medium 5.5
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in Wireshark
Multiple protocol dissector infinite loops in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.6 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.16 allow denial of service
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High 8.7
pypdf: Possible infinite loop for not terminated inline images
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.14.1, an attacker can craft a PDF with a page content stream containing a not terminated inline image, causing an infinite loop during inline image end marker detection such as when extractin…
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High 8.7
pypdf: Possible infinite loop for not terminated inline images (ASCII85 and ASCIIHex filter)
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.14.2, an attacker can craft a PDF with a page content stream containing a not terminated inline image that uses the ASCII85 or ASCIIHex filters, causing an infinite loop during parsing such a…
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High 8.7
Immutable.js `List` 32-bit trie overflow → unrecoverable DoS
Immutable.js provides many Persistent Immutable data structures. Prior to 4.3.9 and 5.1.8, List#set, List#setSize, List#setIn, List#updateIn, and the functional set, setIn, and updateIn mishandle an index or size in the range 2 ** 30 to 2 ** 31 in setListBoun…
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Medium 5.3
protobufjs: Denial of Service via infinite loop in .proto option parsing
protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 7.6.5 and 8.6.6, protobufjs parsed option names by advancing through schema tokens until reaching an = token without checking for end of input, so a crafted .proto schema that o…
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High 8.7
node-tar: Negative tar entry size causes infinite loop in archive replace
node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.18, tar.replace accepts a checksum-valid tar header with a negative base-256 encoded entry size, causing the archive scanner to make no progress while repeatedly parsing the same header.…
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High 7.5
QUIC zero-length UDP datagrams busy-loop
An issue in curl’s QUIC UDP receive function allows a malicious HTTP/3 server to trigger a remote denial of service against a curl or libcurl client. Because the helper function discards zero-length UDP datagrams before counting them toward the per-call packe…
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Medium 5.3
SSH SFTP server denial of service via extended channel data infinite loop
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftpd module) allows an authenticated SFTP user to render an SFTP channel permanently unresponsive. The handle_data/4 function in ssh_sftpd contains a catch-all clause…
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Medium 4.7
ImageMagick: Infinite Loop in connected-components when providing invalid arguments
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, when providing invalid arguments to the connected-components option an infinite loop will occur. This issue has been fixed…
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Medium 4.6
FatFs Infinite Loop in GPT Partition Scan
FatFs prior to R0.16 that use GPT scanning with 'FF_LBA64 = 1' contains an issue where an unbounded loop count derived from GPT header field GPTH_PtNum, enabling extremely long or effectively infinite mount-time scans. This maps to CWE-835 (Loop with Unreacha…
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Medium 6.5
Dhcpcd: dhcpcd infinite loop and out-of-bounds read via zero-length ipv6 nd option in router advertisement handling
A flaw was found in dhcpcd's IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Router Advertisement processing. A specially crafted IPv6 Router Advertisement containing a zero-length Neighbor Discovery option can bypass validation during packet storage and later be reparsed without ad…
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High 7.5
timers/migration: Fix livelock in tmigr_handle_remote_up()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: timers/migration: Fix livelock in tmigr_handle_remote_up() tmigr_handle_remote_cpu() skips timer_expire_remote() when cpu == smp_processor_id(), assuming the local softirq path already handle…
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Medium 6.5
Unbounded TX busy-loop DoS in Zephyr PL011 UART driver under CTS hardware flow control
The Zephyr PL011 UART driver (drivers/serial/uart_pl011.c) contains an unbounded software loop in pl011_irq_tx_enable() that repeatedly invokes the interrupt-driven application callback while the TX interrupt mask bit (PL011_IMSC_TXIM) is set, to work around …
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High 8.2
concurrent-ruby: `AtomicReference#update` livelocks when the stored value is `Float::NAN`
concurrent-ruby is a modern concurrency tools for Ruby. Prior to 1.3.7, Concurrent::AtomicReference#update can enter a permanent busy retry loop when the current value is Float::NAN. The issue is caused by the interaction between AtomicReference#update, which…
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Medium 6.9
pypdf: Possible infinite loop when processing threads/articles in writer
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.13.1, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires merging a file with threads/articles into a writer. This vulnerability is fixed in…
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Medium 6.9
pypdf: Possible infinite loop when processing outlines/bookmarks in writer
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.13.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires merging a file with outlines into a writer. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.13.0.
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Medium 6.9
pypdf: Possible infinite loop when retrieving fonts for layout-mode text extraction
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.13.0, an attacker who uses this vulnerability can craft a PDF which leads to an infinite loop. This requires extracting the text in layout mode. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.13.0.
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Medium 4.7
pam_usb: Infinite loop DoS in process-tree walk when parent process exits during authentication
pam_usb provides hardware authentication for Linux using removable media. In pam_usb 0.9.1 and earlier, usb_get_process_parent_id() can cause an infinite loop DoS because it does not initialize *ppid on failure. In pusb_local_login(), the same variable is reu…
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Medium 5.9
libssh2 - Pre-Authentication DoS via SSH_MSG_EXT_INFO Handler
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 1762685, contains a pre-authentication denial of service vulnerability in the SSH_MSG_EXT_INFO handler in src/packet.c that allows a malicious SSH server to cause a client CPU exhaustion loop by sending a crafted extens…
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High 7.5
Integer Overflow in rxi/microtar mtar_next() Causes Infinite Loop DoS
An integer overflow in the mtar_next function in src/microtar.c in rxi microtar 0.1.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (uncontrolled CPU consumption / infinite loop) via a crafted tar archive. mtar_next computes the offset to the next rec…
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Medium 4.7
ImageMagick: Infinite Loop in subimage-search with crafted image
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, an infinite loop in the subimage-search operation can happen when using a crafted image. This issue has been patched in ve…
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Medium 5.5
ImageMagick: Heap Buffer Over-Write in MIFF encoder when using LZMA compression
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-48 and 7.1.2-23, when using LZMA compression in the MIFF encoder an out of bounds write can occur due to a missing check. This issue has be…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-46522 Public exploit
ImageMagick: Infinite Loop in the MIFF decoder can lead to CPU exhaustion
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2.23 and 6.9.13-48, due to a missing check in the MIFF decoder, a crafted file could cause an infinite loop resulting in CPU exhaustion. Versi…
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High 7.5CVE-2025-71329 Public exploit
image-size 2.0.2 Denial of Service via Infinite Loop in JXL/HEIF Parser
image-size through 2.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to permanently block the Node.js event loop by supplying a specially crafted image buffer with a zero-valued size field in a recognized box-type. Attackers can tr…
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High 7.5
image-size 2.0.2 Denial of Service via Malformed ICNS Image Parsing
image-size through 2.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to permanently block the Node.js event loop by supplying a specially crafted ICNS image buffer. Attackers can craft an ICNS buffer containing valid magic bytes an…
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Medium 5.5
Ghidra 10.2 < 12.1 - Denial of Service via Circular Reference in Mach-O Export Trie Parser
Ghidra 10.2 before 12.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in ExportTrie.parseTrie() that lacks cycle detection when traversing Mach-O binary export tries. A crafted Mach-O binary with circular references in the export trie causes unb…
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High 7.5
image-size 2.0.2 Denial of Service via Infinite Loop in JXL/HEIF Parser
image-size through 2.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows remote attackers to permanently block the Node.js event loop by supplying a specially crafted image buffer with a zero-valued size field in a recognized box-type. Attackers can tr…
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High 7.3
Apache HTTP Server: Loop in `proxy_ftp_handler` in mod_proxy_ftp
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in the mod_proxy_ftp module in Apache HTTP Server with an attacker controlled backend FTP server. This issue affects undefined: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.67. Users are recommended to upgrade to…
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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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High 8.7
iskorotkov/avro: CPU Exhaustion in Avro Decoder
iskorotkov/avro is a fast Go Avro codec. Prior to 2.33.0, the Avro array and map decoders looped over an attacker-controlled block-count value without checking the underlying reader's error state inside the loop body. Reader.ReadBlockHeader returns the count …
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Medium 5.3
Mermaid Gantt Charts are vulnerable to an Infinite Loop DoS
Mermaid is a JavaScript tool that uses Markdown-inspired text to create and modify diagrams and charts. Prior to 10.9.6 and 11.15.0, there is a denial-of-service attack when rendering gantt charts, if they use the excludes attribute to exclude all dates. merm…
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Medium 4.3
Glib-networking: infinite loop in glib-networking gnutls backend allows remote denial of service via circular certificate chain
A flaw was found in glib-networking. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by presenting a specially crafted certificate chain to an application that uses glib-networking with the GnuTLS backend enabled and performs certificate verification. This c…
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High 7.5
ceph: only d_add() negative dentries when they are unhashed
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ceph: only d_add() negative dentries when they are unhashed Ceph can call d_add(dentry, NULL) on a negative dentry that is already present in the primary dcache hash. In the current VFS that …
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High 7.1
OpenStack Swift: s3api middleware enters an infinite loop when processing a truncated aws-chunked PUT request body
In OpenStack Swift before 2.36.2 and 2.37.2, s3api middleware enters an infinite loop when processing a truncated aws-chunked PUT request body. The StreamingInput class repeatedly appends an empty buffer and re-reads, causing the proxy-server worker handling …
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High 8.7
Infinite loop in Alt-Svc header parser in hackney
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Excessive Allocation. The Alt-Svc response header parser in src/hackney_altsvc.erl does not guarantee forward progress. When parse_token/2 receives a non-token, non…
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Low 3.1
OpenTofu: Excessive resource usage in "tofu init" when installing dependencies from attacker-controlled server
### Impact Unauthenticated denial of service. ### Summary When installing provider or module packages from attacker-controlled servers, the server may cause `tofu init`to enter an infinite loop sending garbage data to that server. Those who depend on modules …
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Medium 6.5
libheif is Vulnerable to Infinite Loop DoS via stts Sample Duration Lookup
libheif is a HEIF and AVIF file format decoder and encoder. In versions 1.21.2 and below, a crafted 800-byte HEIF sequence file causes an infinite loop in Box_stts::get_sample_duration(), consuming 100% CPU indefinitely with zero progress, leading to DoS. The…