CVE-2026-116011High· 7.5▾ MidnightPoC availableCrow 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 …
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 41.3 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 12
A public proof-of-concept already exists for this vulnerability — see Exploit availability below.
Public exploit / PoC code seen in 1 source. Availability, not in-the-wild use.
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Oct 26.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via CVEORG
1 GitHub repo
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.7%
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.
Crow < 1.3.4Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.
Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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