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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-41146 EUVD-2026-24583GHSA-2x79-gwq3-vxxm

facil.io and downstream iodine ruby gem vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption and loop with unreachable exit condition

Published Apr 22, 2026 · Updated Apr 22, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

facil.io is a C micro-framework for web applications. Prior to commit 5128747363055201d3ecf0e29bf0a961703c9fa0, `fio_json_parse` can enter an infinite loop when it encounters a nested JSON value starting with `i` or `I`. The process spins in user space and pegs one CPU core at ~100% instead of returning a parse error. Because `iodine` vendors the same parser code, the issue also affects `iodine` when it parses attacker-controlled JSON. The smallest reproducer I found is `[i`. The quoted-value form that originally exposed the issue, `[""i`, reaches the same bug because the parser tolerates missing commas and then treats the trailing `i` as the start of another value. Commit 5128747363055201d3ecf0e29bf0a961703c9fa0 fixes the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
boazsegev facil.io < 5128747363055201d3ecf0e29bf0a961703c9fa0 —
boazsegev iodine < 0.7.59 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems iodine <= 0.7.58 — GHSA-2x79-gwq3-vxxm

References