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HIGHCVE-2026-41146Published Modified CNA GitHub_M

CVE-2026-41146: facil.io and downstream iodine ruby gem vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption and loop with unreachable exit condition

facil.io is a C micro-framework for web applications. Prior to commit 5128747363055201d3ecf0e29bf0a961703c9fa0, `fio_json_parse` can enter an infinite loop when it encounters a nested JSON value starting with `i` or `I`. The process spins in user space and pegs one CPU core at ~100% instead of returning a parse error. Because `iodine` vendors the same parser code, the issue also affects `iodine` when it parses attacker-controlled JSON. The smallest reproducer I found is `[i`. The quoted-value form that originally exposed the issue, `[""i`, reaches the same bug because the parser tolerates missing commas and then treats the trailing `i` as the start of another value. Commit 5128747363055201d3ecf0e29bf0a961703c9fa0 fixes the issue.

Metrics

CVSS v4.0
8.7
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
Affected Products
2
Affected packages
  • boazsegev / facil.io
    < 5128747363055201d3ecf0e29bf0a961703c9fa0
  • boazsegev / iodine
    < 0.7.59
CVSS 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
CVE-2026-41146: facil.io and downstream iodine ruby gem vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption and loop with unreachable exit condition | HarborGuard CVE