ewe is a Gleam web server. Versions 0.8.0 through 3.0.4 contain a bug in the handle_trailers function where rejected trailer headers (forbidden or undeclared) cause an infinite loop. When handle_trailers encounters such a trailer, three code paths (lines 520, 523, 526) recurse with the original buffer (rest) instead of advancing past the rejected header (Buffer(header_rest, 0)), causing decoder.decode_packet to re-parse the same header on every iteration. The resulting loop has no timeout or escape — the BEAM process permanently wedges at 100% CPU. Any application that calls ewe.read_body on chunked requests is affected, and this is exploitable by any unauthenticated remote client before control returns to application code, making an application-level workaround impossible. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.5.
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GHSA-4w98-xf39-23gp | Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in ewe |
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:30:00 +0000
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| Description | ewe is a Gleam web server. Versions 0.8.0 through 3.0.4 contain a bug in the handle_trailers function where rejected trailer headers (forbidden or undeclared) cause an infinite loop. When handle_trailers encounters such a trailer, three code paths (lines 520, 523, 526) recurse with the original buffer (rest) instead of advancing past the rejected header (Buffer(header_rest, 0)), causing decoder.decode_packet to re-parse the same header on every iteration. The resulting loop has no timeout or escape — the BEAM process permanently wedges at 100% CPU. Any application that calls ewe.read_body on chunked requests is affected, and this is exploitable by any unauthenticated remote client before control returns to application code, making an application-level workaround impossible. This issue is fixed in version 3.0.5. | |
| Title | ewe: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-825 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-03-20T01:13:39.665Z
Reserved: 2026-03-16T21:03:44.419Z
Link: CVE-2026-32873
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-20T02:16:35.540
Modified: 2026-03-20T02:16:35.540
Link: CVE-2026-32873
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