Scriban before 6.6.0 Denial of Service via Infinite Recursion
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Denial of service
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-674.
Summary
Scriban before 6.6.0 contains an infinite recursion vulnerability in object rendering when the ObjectRecursionLimit property defaults to unlimited. Attackers can supply circular reference objects to the template context, exhausting stack space and triggering an uncatchable StackOverflowException that terminates the hosting process.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA scriban (scriban) Fixed in 6.6.0
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
scriban 6.6.0
2 records Highest priority Priority HIGH 1 HIGH, 1 MEDIUM
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-52559 Scriban before 6.6.0 Denial of Service via Uncontrolled RecursionPriority MEDIUM 44
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-74794
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-pprh-wgqr-2mmx
References
More scriban vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-52554 Scriban before 7.0.0 MemberFilter Bypass via TemplateContext Cache CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-51270 Scriban before 7.2.2 Arbitrary Property Write via TypedObjectAccessor CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-52555 Scriban before 7.0.0 Authorization Bypass via Stale Include Cache CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.2
- TI-2026-52556 Scriban before 7.0.0 Stack Overflow via nested array initializers CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-52552 Scriban before 7.0.0 Denial of Service via string.pad_left/pad_right CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-52551 Scriban before 7.0.0 Uncontrolled Recursion via object.to_json CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-74794 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-74794 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-pprh-wgqr-2mmx · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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