CWE-674— Uncontrolled Recursion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.— MITRE CWE catalog
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CVEs classified under CWE-674page 13 of 14
- CVE-2019-6291MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-01-15
An issue was discovered in the function expr6 in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the expr6 function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving lots of '…
- CVE-2019-6290MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-01-15
An infinite recursion issue was discovered in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02. There is a stack exhaustion problem resulting from infinite recursion in the functions expr, rexp, bexpr and cexpr in certain scenarios invol…
- CVE-2019-6131MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52019-01-11
svg-run.c in Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0 has infinite recursion with stack consumption in svg_run_use_symbol, svg_run_element, and svg_run_use, as demonstrated by mutool.
- CVE-2018-18484MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-10-18
An issue was discovered in cp-demangle.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there is a stack consumption problem caused by recursive sta…
- CVE-2018-11597MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-05-31
Espruino before 1.99 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) with a user crafted input file via a Buffer Overflow during syntax parsing because of a missing check for stack exhaustion with many '{' characters in j…
- CVE-2018-11254MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-05-18
An issue was discovered in PoDoFo 0.9.5. There is an Excessive Recursion in the PdfPagesTree::GetPageNode() function of PdfPagesTree.cpp. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service through a crafted pdf…
- CVE-2018-9996MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-04-10
An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_template_value_parm…
- CVE-2018-9138MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-03-30
An issue was discovered in cplus-dem.c in GNU libiberty, as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.29 and 2.30. Stack Exhaustion occurs in the C++ demangling functions provided by libiberty, and there are recursive stack frames: demangle_nested_arg…
- CVE-2018-6544MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-02-02
pdf_load_obj_stm in pdf/pdf-xref.c in Artifex MuPDF 1.12.0 could reference the object stream recursively and therefore run out of error stack, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDF document.
- CVE-2018-5759MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-01-24
jsparse.c in Artifex MuJS through 1.0.2 does not properly maintain the AST depth for binary expressions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive recursion) via a crafted file.
- CVE-2018-5772MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52018-01-18
In Exiv2 0.26, there is a segmentation fault caused by uncontrolled recursion in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function in the image.cpp file. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial of service via a craf…
- CVE-2017-14861MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-09-29
There is a stack consumption vulnerability in the Exiv2::Internal::stringFormat function of image.cpp in Exiv2 0.26. A Crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVE-2017-0692MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-07-06
A denial of service vulnerability in the Android media framework. Product: Android. Versions: 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2. Android ID: A-36725407.
- CVE-2017-9617MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-06-14
In Wireshark 2.2.7, deeply nested DAAP data may cause stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the dissect_daap_one_tag function in epan/dissectors/packet-daap.c in the DAAP dissector.
- CVE-2017-9616MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-06-14
In Wireshark 2.2.7, overly deep mp4 chunks may cause stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the dissect_mp4_box function in epan/dissectors/file-mp4.c.
- CVE-2017-7515MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-06-06
poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-of-service.
- CVE-2017-8542MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-05-26
The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 15…
- CVE-2017-8539MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-05-26
The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 15…
- CVE-2017-8537MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-05-26
The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 15…
- CVE-2017-8536MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-05-26
The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 15…
- CVE-2017-8535MEDIUMCVSS 5.5EG 5.52017-05-26
The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 15…
- CVE-2022-31628MEDIUMCVSS 2.3EG 5.52022-09-28
In PHP versions before 7.4.31, 8.0.24 and 8.1.11, the phar uncompressor code would recursively uncompress "quines" gzip files, resulting in an infinite loop.
- CVE-2023-53513MEDIUMEG 5.52025-10-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: nbd: fix incomplete validation of ioctl arg We tested and found an alarm caused by nbd_ioctl arg without verification. The UBSAN warning calltrace like below: UBSAN: Un…
- CVE-2025-43718MEDIUMCVSS 2.9EG 5.42025-10-01
Poppler 24.06.1 through 25.x before 25.04.0 allows stack consumption and a SIGSEGV via deeply nested structures within the metadata (such as GTS_PDFEVersion) of a PDF document, e.g., a regular expression for a long pdfsubver string. This o…
- CVE-2026-128238MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-11-13
Scapy before 2.8.0 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in the BER/ASN.1 decoder in scapy/asn1/ber.py that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to crash parsing applications. Attackers can send a single 833-byte packet with …
- CVE-2026-126193MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-11-12
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library for Beautiful Soup. From 0.4 until 3.0, deeply nested CSS pseudo-class selectors can cause recursive parsing to exceed Python’s recursion limit and raise RecursionError . Applications accepting unt…
- CVE-2026-123660MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-11-06
In Vulnerability-Lookup 5.5.1 up to but not including 6.4.1, a signed-in user could make the server allocate memory far out of proportion to their input through a webhook notification's payload template. Each placeholder's format specifier…
- CVE-2026-119137MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-10-29
Wasmtime 42.0.0 before 48.0.6 and 49.0.0 before 49.0.3 contains a stack overflow vulnerability that allows guests to crash the host through recursive type drops. Guests can define a long chain of recursive types so that removing the top-le…
- CVE-2026-113650MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-10-20
ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. In sanitize-html 2.18.0, when an <iframe> is not allowed and disallowedTagsMode is 'discard' (the defaults), its raw-text content is re-sanitized by a recursive call to san…
- CVE-2026-107298MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-10-08
msgpack5 is a msgpack v5 implementation for node.js and the browser. Prior to 6.1.0, the array and map decoding paths have no nesting-depth limit, allowing an attacker who can provide MessagePack input to submit deeply nested containers th…
- CVE-2026-107208MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-10-07
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-30 and 6.9.13-55, a crafted XMP profile can reach a recursion limit that is handled as a fatal condition instead of an ordinary e…
- CVE-2026-106572MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-10-07
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to 7.1.2-30 and 6.9.13-55, a missing recursion-depth check in the CALS decoder allows a crafted CALS image to exhaust the call stack and t…
- CVE-2026-102265MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-09-28
PyJWT is a Python implementation of JSON Web Token standards. From 2.13.0 until 2.14.0, PyJWS._load in jwt/api_jws.py is affected because parser catches ValueError but not RecursionError. This occurs when a deeply nested token header reach…
- CVE-2026-63386MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-09-22
js-toml is a TOML parser for JavaScript. Prior to 1.1.3, load() does not bound nesting or dotted-key depth in the recursive parser at src/load/parser.ts or the interpreter at src/load/interpreter.ts, so deeply nested arrays, deeply nested …
- CVE-2026-90472MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-09-12
msgpack-java through 0.9.12 contains a stack overflow vulnerability in MessageUnpacker.unpackValue() that recursively deserializes arrays and maps without nesting depth limits. Attackers can craft payloads with deeply nested arrays to exha…
- CVE-2026-84175MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-09-02
In Eclipse Ditto versions 3.0.0 to 3.9.6, the Things service fetches WoT (Web of Things) ThingModels over HTTP from URLs supplied by API users in the definition field of a Thing or Feature, without validating the target host, and follows H…
- CVE-2026-81724MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-08-27
NLTK before 3.10.3 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in nltk.featstruct.FeatStructReader that allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service by supplying deeply nested feature-structure input. Attackers can cr…
- CVE-2026-15830MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-08-04
An issue was discovered in Django 6.0 before 6.0.9 and 5.2 before 5.2.18. GeoDjango's `django.contrib.gis.geos.GEOSGeometry` is subject to a potential denial-of-service when parsing deeply nested `GEOMETRYCOLLECTION` objects supplied as we…
- CVE-2026-17501MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-07-27
A flaw has been found in ggml-org llama.cpp e15efe0. This vulnerability affects the function transform of the file common/json-schema-to-grammar.cpp of the component JSON-Schema-to-GBNF Conversion. This manipulation causes uncontrolled rec…
- CVE-2026-59927MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-07-08
Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Prior to 3.3.0, the Include directive in src/mistune/directives/include.py detects only direct self-includes and not indirect cycles, allowing two markdown files that include …
- CVE-2026-55594MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-07-01
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, a missing depth check in the MVG decoder will result in a stack overflow when a crafted image is provi…
- CVE-2026-54269MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-06-15
protobufjs compiles protobuf definitions into JavaScript (JS) functions. Prior to 8.6.0 and 7.6.3, protobufjs accepted certain schema-derived names that could collide with properties used by protobufjs runtime helpers. The known affected n…
- CVE-2026-47706MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-06-04
Strawberry GraphQL is a library for creating GraphQL APIs. In versions 0.71.0 through 0.315.6, the QueryDepthLimiter extension is vulnerable to an Application-level DOS due to a lack of cycle detection in fragment spreads. When a query con…
- CVE-2026-45664MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-05-18
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-47 and 7.1.2-22, because of a missing check in the MNG coder it would be possible to read more images than the list lim…
- CVE-2026-45205MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-05-14
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Commons. When processing an untrusted configuration file, Commons Configuration will throw a StackOverflowError for YAML input with cycles. This issue affects Apache Commons: from 2.2 before …
- CVE-2026-41606MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32026-04-28
Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Apache Thrift. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.23.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.23.0, which fixes the issue.
- CVE-2025-68618MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32025-12-30
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to version 7.1.2-12, using Magick to read a malicious SVG file resulted in a DoS attack. Version 7.1.2-12 fixes the issue.
- CVE-2025-59364MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32025-09-14
The express-xss-sanitizer (aka Express XSS Sanitizer) package through 2.0.0 for Node.js has an unbounded recursion depth in sanitize in lib/sanitize.js for a JSON request body.
- CVE-2025-4565MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32025-06-16
Any project that uses Protobuf Pure-Python backend to parse untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags can be corrupted by exceeding the Python recurs…
- CVE-2024-1899MEDIUMCVSS 5.3EG 5.32024-02-26
An issue in the anchors subparser of Showdownjs versions <= 2.1.0 could allow a remote attacker to cause denial of service conditions.
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