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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-62303 EUVD-2026-114262

Pistache: DoS via stack exhaustion in REST router path normalization (regex_replace on long slash runs)

Published Oct 30, 2026 · Updated Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Pistache is a high-performance REST toolkit written in C++. From 0.0.5 through 0.4.26, `SegmentTreeNode::sanitizeResource()` in `src/server/router.cc` uses `std::regex_replace()` with the `//+` expression to collapse consecutive slashes. With libstdc++, a path containing tens of thousands of consecutive slash characters can recurse deeply enough to exhaust the stack and crash the process. `Router::route()`, `Router::addRoute()` and `Router::removeRoute()` reach this normalization. Unauthenticated remote exploitation is conditional on a deployment allowing sufficiently long request paths, such as by increasing `Endpoint::Options::maxRequestSize()` above the default 4096-byte limit or forwarding long paths through a front end. Direct router API use is also affected when attacker-controlled route or resource strings reach the normalizer. Native builds reproduced a crash around 24,000 consecutive slashes, although the exact threshold depends on the stack and standard library; the demonstrated failure is stack exhaustion rather than uninitialized-memory use. A source fix replaces recursive regular-expression normalization with an iterative pass, but no containing repository release was verified as of time of publication.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pistacheio pistache >= 0.0.5, <= 0.4.26 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 pistache No fix yet —
Debian 13 pistache No fix yet —
Debian 12 pistache No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pistache No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pistache No fix yet —

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