CVE-2026-32873CWE-825

ewe: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

High · published March 20, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
51.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00669 · 51.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-825 · Expired Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-03-20T01:13Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 MAR 01:13Z
    ewe: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
    cvelistv5