CVE-2026-41146CWE-400CWE-835

facil.io and downstream iodine ruby gem vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption and loop with unreachable exit condition

High · published April 22, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
36.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · HIGH
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
EPSS
0.00432 · 36.5th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2026-04-22T01:07Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 APR 01:07Z
    facil.io and downstream iodine ruby gem vulnerable to uncontrolled resource consumption and loop with unreachable exit condition
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