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High · 8.7 CVE-2025-29776 EUVD-2025-6418GHSA-xc76-5pf9-mx8m

Azle calling `setTimer` causes infinite loop of timers

Published Mar 14, 2025 · Updated Mar 15, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Azle is a WebAssembly runtime for TypeScript and JavaScript on ICP. Calling `setTimer` in Azle versions `0.27.0`, `0.28.0`, and `0.29.0` causes an immediate infinite loop of timers to be executed on the canister, each timer attempting to clean up the global state of the previous timer. The infinite loop will occur with any valid invocation of `setTimer`. The problem has been fixed as of Azle version `0.30.0`. As a workaround, if a canister is caught in this infinite loop after calling `setTimer`, the canister can be upgraded and the timers will all be cleared, thus ending the loop.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
demergent-labs azle >= 0.27.0, < 0.30.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm azle >= 0.27.0, < 0.30.0 0.30.0 GHSA-xc76-5pf9-mx8m

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