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Uncontrolled Recursion CWE-674 CWE-674 at MITRE

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

CVEs

CVEs for Uncontrolled Recursion CWE-674

Summary Publication CVE ID Published
TLS/DTLS denial of service via unbounded recursion on cross-signed peer certificate chain
pkg:otp/ssl
CVE-2026-58227 2026-07-27
Uncontrolled recursion over deeply nested Markdown crashes the BEAM in mdex CVE-2026-54888 2026-06-29
2 CVEs