GHSA-jgvr-6x5w-hx5w
Zoo Design Studio: Recursive KCL parsing is vulnerable to denial-of-service
GHSA-jgvr-6x5w-hx5w is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.9) in zoo-kcl, published August 20, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. Fixed in zoo-kcl 0.3.129.
- Severity
- 6.9 MediumCVSS 4.0, GitHub Advisories
- Exploit chance
- UnscoredNo EPSS score yet
- Exploitation
- None knownNot on CISA’s or ENISA’s lists
- Fixed in
0.3.129zoo-kcl +2 more
Description
Impact
Feeding a KCL program that wraps an expression in deep, unnecessary parentheses triggers the parser’s recursive expression -> unnecessarily_bracketed -> expression path. With enough nesting, the call stack grows until it exceeds the process stack limit, causing a stack overflow.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Low
Affected packages
What each source reports
GitHub Advisories Score used
Zoo Design Studio: Recursive KCL parsing is vulnerable to denial-of-service
Impact
Feeding a KCL program that wraps an expression in deep, unnecessary parentheses triggers the parser’s recursive expression -> unnecessarily_bracketed -> expression path. With enough nesting, the call stack grows until it exceeds the process stack limit, causing a stack overflow.
- Record
GHSA-jgvr-6x5w-hx5w- CVSS 4.0
- 6.9 Medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - Weakness
- CWE-770
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSV
Zoo Design Studio: Recursive KCL parsing is vulnerable to denial-of-service
Impact
Feeding a KCL program that wraps an expression in deep, unnecessary parentheses triggers the parser’s recursive expression -> unnecessarily_bracketed -> expression path. With enough nesting, the call stack grows until it exceeds the process stack limit, causing a stack overflow.
- Record
GHSA-jgvr-6x5w-hx5w- CVSS 4.0
- 6.9 Medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - Weakness
- CWE-770
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | GitHub Advisories, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.