Class weakness
Draft
CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
Also known as: Stack Exhaustion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
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Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
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Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
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Overview
CWE-674 (Uncontrolled Recursion) is a class-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.