CVE-2025-68156: Expr has Denial of Service via Unbounded Recursion in Builtin Functions
Several builtin functions in Expr, including flatten, min, max, mean, and median, perform
recursive traversal over user-provided data structures without enforcing a maximum recursion depth.
If the evaluation environment contains deeply nested or cyclic data structures, these functions may recurse indefinitely until exceed the Go runtime stack limit. This results in a stack overflow panic, causing the host application to crash.
While exploitability depends on whether an attacker can influence or inject cyclic or pathologically deep data into the evaluation environment, this behavior represents a denial-of-service (DoS) risk and affects overall library robustness. Instead of returning a recoverable evaluation error, the process may terminate unexpectedly.
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