CWE-674
Allowed-with-ReviewUncontrolled Recursion
Abstraction: Class · Status: Draft
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
872 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-C2V6-69QQ-J8H4
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:48 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:48In uClibc 0.9.33.2, there is stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 function in misc/regex/regexec.c when processing a crafted regular expression.
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"nvd_published_at": "2017-06-16T15:29:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
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"details": "In uClibc 0.9.33.2, there is stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) in the check_dst_limits_calc_pos_1 function in misc/regex/regexec.c when processing a crafted regular expression.",
"id": "GHSA-c2v6-69qq-j8h4",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:48:06Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:48:06Z",
"references": [
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"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9729"
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"url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/06/16/4"
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"type": "CVSS_V3"
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GHSA-C34C-R8HH-6GRP
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-30 09:31 – Updated: 2026-09-30 09:31Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value, Allocation of Resources Without Limits, and Uncontrolled Recursion in the Java implementation of Apache PLC4X (PLC4J) allow a malicious or impersonated device to exhaust the memory or stack of the client application, causing a denial of service.
In the OPC UA driver these defects are reachable before authentication: the offending data is parsed while the secure channel and session are being established, before the server's identity has been bound to it. Configuring a trusted server therefore does not prevent exploitation by an attacker who can impersonate it.
The individual defects are: - Length-prefixed byte strings are allocated at the size claimed on the wire before the length is checked against the data actually received (0.10.0 through 0.13.1). - Array fields in generated protocol parsers pre-allocate a list with the element count claimed on the wire, allowing a single count field to trigger a multi-gigabyte allocation. This parser is shared by all PLC4J drivers; the OPC UA driver is the verified pre-authentication path (0.10.0 through 0.13.1). - The OPC UA driver accumulates message chunks without enforcing the negotiated maximum chunk count and message size (0.12.0 through 0.13.1). - The OPC UA driver pre-allocates collections using element counts received from the server (0.10.0 through 0.13.1). - Recursive protocol types are parsed without a nesting-depth limit. The same defect in the Go implementation is covered by CVE-2026-102510 https://cveprocess.apache.org/cve5/CVE-2026-102510 .
This issue affects Apache PLC4X: from 0.10.0 before 1.0.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.0.0, which fixes the issue.
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"details": "Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value, Allocation of Resources Without Limits, and Uncontrolled Recursion in the Java implementation of Apache PLC4X (PLC4J) allow a malicious or impersonated device to exhaust the memory or stack of the client application, causing a denial of service.\n\nIn the OPC UA driver these defects are reachable before authentication: the offending data is parsed while the secure channel and session are being established, before the server\u0027s identity has been bound to it. Configuring a trusted server therefore does not prevent exploitation by an attacker who can \nimpersonate it.\n\nThe individual defects are:\n- Length-prefixed byte strings are allocated at the size claimed on the wire before the length is checked against the data actually received (0.10.0 through 0.13.1).\n- Array fields in generated protocol parsers pre-allocate a list with the element count claimed on the wire, allowing a single count field to trigger a multi-gigabyte allocation. This parser is shared by all PLC4J drivers; the OPC UA driver is the verified pre-authentication path (0.10.0 through 0.13.1).\n- The OPC UA driver accumulates message chunks without enforcing the negotiated maximum chunk count and message size (0.12.0 through 0.13.1).\n- The OPC UA driver pre-allocates collections using element counts received from the server (0.10.0 through 0.13.1).\n- Recursive protocol types are parsed without a nesting-depth limit. The same defect in the Go implementation is covered by CVE-2026-102510 https://cveprocess.apache.org/cve5/CVE-2026-102510 .\n\nThis issue affects Apache PLC4X: from 0.10.0 before 1.0.0.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 1.0.0, which fixes the issue.",
"id": "GHSA-c34c-r8hh-6grp",
"modified": "2026-09-30T09:31:11Z",
"published": "2026-09-30T09:31:11Z",
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"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102509"
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"url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/qngc85qhnlj7kpk3z58z0xlxhz2tn6gp"
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"type": "CVSS_V4"
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}
GHSA-C38H-R4WC-M6RM
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-03 00:30 – Updated: 2024-04-03 00:30In Xpdf 4.05 (and earlier), a PDF object loop in an object stream leads to infinite recursion and a stack overflow.
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"nvd_published_at": "2024-04-02T23:15:55Z",
"severity": "LOW"
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"details": "In Xpdf 4.05 (and earlier), a PDF object loop in an object stream leads to infinite recursion and a stack overflow.\n",
"id": "GHSA-c38h-r4wc-m6rm",
"modified": "2024-04-03T00:30:56Z",
"published": "2024-04-03T00:30:56Z",
"references": [
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"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3247"
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"url": "https://forum.xpdfreader.com/viewtopic.php?t=43597"
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"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-C464-P6XP-R3MM
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-04 12:30 – Updated: 2026-06-04 12:30Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Samsung Open Source rlottie allows Oversized Serialized Data Payloads.
This issue affects rlottie: before e2d19e3b150e0e4a9586fa90b56fd3061cc98945.
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"details": "Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in Samsung Open Source rlottie allows Oversized Serialized Data Payloads.\n\nThis issue affects rlottie: before e2d19e3b150e0e4a9586fa90b56fd3061cc98945.",
"id": "GHSA-c464-p6xp-r3mm",
"modified": "2026-06-04T12:30:25Z",
"published": "2026-06-04T12:30:25Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-47306"
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"url": "https://github.com/Samsung/rlottie/pull/585"
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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GHSA-C53C-XHHC-3HPJ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:36 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:36poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-of-service.
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"details": "poppler through version 0.55.0 is vulnerable to an uncontrolled recursion in pdfunite resulting into potential denial-of-service.",
"id": "GHSA-c53c-xhhc-3hpj",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:36:19Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:36:19Z",
"references": [
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"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7515"
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"url": "https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101208"
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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GHSA-C6V9-VW5H-VQRM
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-05-14 18:30 – Updated: 2024-08-16 18:30HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 allows stack consumption in the function H5E_printf_stack in H5Eint.c.
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"nvd_published_at": "2024-05-14T15:36:45Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
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"details": "HDF5 Library through 1.14.3 allows stack consumption in the function H5E_printf_stack in H5Eint.c.",
"id": "GHSA-c6v9-vw5h-vqrm",
"modified": "2024-08-16T18:30:56Z",
"published": "2024-05-14T18:30:46Z",
"references": [
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"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-32609"
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"url": "https://www.hdfgroup.org/2024/05/new-hdf5-cve-issues-fixed-in-1-14-4"
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"type": "CVSS_V3"
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}
GHSA-C7HF-64RQ-W8MM
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 19:13 – Updated: 2023-01-11 09:30A crafted NTFS image with an unallocated bitmap can lead to a endless recursive function call chain (starting from ntfs_attr_pwrite), causing stack consumption in NTFS-3G < 2021.8.22.
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"nvd_published_at": "2021-09-07T15:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
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"details": "A crafted NTFS image with an unallocated bitmap can lead to a endless recursive function call chain (starting from ntfs_attr_pwrite), causing stack consumption in NTFS-3G \u003c 2021.8.22.",
"id": "GHSA-c7hf-64rq-w8mm",
"modified": "2023-01-11T09:30:32Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T19:13:09Z",
"references": [
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"url": "https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/security/advisories/GHSA-q759-8j5v-q5jp"
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"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39257"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/11/msg00013.html"
},
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"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-01"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4971"
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"type": "CVSS_V3"
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GHSA-CC39-H55X-VP6H
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:19 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:19An 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 stack frames: cplus_demangle_type, d_bare_function_type, d_function_type.
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"id": "GHSA-cc39-h55x-vp6h",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:19:38Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:19:38Z",
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"url": "https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87636"
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"url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4326-1"
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"url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/4336-1"
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"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00072.html"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00008.html"
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"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105693"
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GHSA-CC95-PV6Q-RGMH
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:46 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:46The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.
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"details": "The gst_riff_create_audio_caps function in gst-libs/gst/riff/riff-media.c in gst-plugins-base in GStreamer before 1.10.3 does not properly limit recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow and crash) via vectors involving nested WAVEFORMATEX.",
"id": "GHSA-cc95-pv6q-rgmh",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:46:20Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:46:20Z",
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"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2060"
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"url": "https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777265"
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"url": "https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/releases/1.10/#1.10.3"
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"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-10"
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"url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3819"
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"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/01/7"
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"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96001"
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GHSA-CF58-VMG8-228P
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-10 21:31 – Updated: 2026-02-10 21:31MongoDB Server may experience an out-of-memory failure while evaluating expressions that produce deeply nested documents. The issue arises in recursive functions because the server does not periodically check the depth of the expression.
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"details": "MongoDB Server may experience an out-of-memory failure while evaluating expressions that produce deeply nested documents. The issue arises in recursive functions because the server does not periodically check the depth of the expression.",
"id": "GHSA-cf58-vmg8-228p",
"modified": "2026-02-10T21:31:29Z",
"published": "2026-02-10T21:31:29Z",
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"url": "https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-102364"
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
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Mitigation
Ensure that an end condition will be reached under all logic conditions. The end condition may include checking against the depth of recursion and exiting with an error if the recursion goes too deep. The complexity of the end condition contributes to the effectiveness of this action.
Mitigation
Increase the stack size.
CAPEC-230: Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
Applications often need to transform data in and out of a data format (e.g., XML and YAML) by using a parser. It may be possible for an adversary to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the parser when it is being processed. Many data format languages allow the definition of macro-like structures that can be used to simplify the creation of complex structures. By nesting these structures, causing the data to be repeatedly substituted, an adversary can cause the parser to consume more resources while processing, causing excessive memory consumption and CPU utilization.
CAPEC-231: Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
An adversary injects oversized serialized data payloads into a parser during data processing to produce adverse effects upon the parser such as exhausting system resources and arbitrary code execution.