Crow before 1.3.4 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in crow::json::load() that allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the server by sending deeply nested JSON. Attackers can send a request body with thousands of nested objects to exhaust the worker thread stack, terminating the process and dropping all connections.

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Description Crow before 1.3.4 contains an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability in crow::json::load() that allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the server by sending deeply nested JSON. Attackers can send a request body with thousands of nested objects to exhaust the worker thread stack, terminating the process and dropping all connections.
Title Crow before 1.3.4 Denial of Service via Deeply Nested JSON in crow::json::load()
First Time appeared Crowcpp
Crowcpp crow
Weaknesses CWE-674
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:crowcpp:crow:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Crowcpp
Crowcpp crow
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulnCheck

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-24T11:40:30.179Z

Reserved: 2026-10-24T11:23:54.190Z

Link: CVE-2026-116011

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-24T12:16:57.070

Modified: 2026-10-24T12:16:57.070

Link: CVE-2026-116011

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Updated: 2026-10-24T13:45:07Z

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