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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-32873 EUVD-2026-13428GHSA-4w98-xf39-23gp

ewe: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published Mar 20, 2026 · Updated Mar 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

ewe is a Gleam web server. Versions 0.8.0 through 3.0.4 contain a bug in the handle_trailers function where rejected trailer headers (forbidden or undeclared) cause an infinite loop. When handle_trailers encounters such a trailer, three code paths (lines 520, 523, 526) recurse with the original buffer (rest) instead of advancing past the rejected header (Buffer(header_rest, 0)), causing decoder.decode_packet to re-parse the same header on every iteration. The resulting loop has no timeout or escape — the BEAM process permanently wedges at 100% CPU. Any application that calls ewe.read_body on chunked requests is affected, and this is exploitable by any unauthenticated remote client before control returns to application code, making an application-level workaround impossible. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.5.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
vshakitskiy ewe >= 0.8.0, < 3.0.5 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex ewe >= 0.8.0, < 3.0.5 3.0.5 GHSA-4w98-xf39-23gp

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