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x/vulndb: potential Go vuln in github.com/expr-lang/expr: GHSA-cfpf-hrx2-8rv6 #4245

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Advisory GHSA-cfpf-hrx2-8rv6 references a vulnerability in the following Go modules:

Module
github.com/expr-lang/expr

Description:
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, t...

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id: GO-ID-PENDING
modules:
    - module: github.com/expr-lang/expr
      versions:
        - fixed: 1.17.7
      vulnerable_at: 1.17.6
summary: Expr has Denial of Service via Unbounded Recursion in Builtin Functions in github.com/expr-lang/expr
cves:
    - CVE-2025-68156
ghsas:
    - GHSA-cfpf-hrx2-8rv6
references:
    - advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cfpf-hrx2-8rv6
    - advisory: https://github.com/expr-lang/expr/security/advisories/GHSA-cfpf-hrx2-8rv6
    - advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68156
    - fix: https://github.com/expr-lang/expr/pull/870
source:
    id: GHSA-cfpf-hrx2-8rv6
    created: 2025-12-16T23:01:25.353708525Z
review_status: UNREVIEWED

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