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CVE-2026-62303

Pistache: DoS via stack exhaustion in REST router path normalization (regex_replace on long slash runs)

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Summary

Pistache, a C++ REST toolkit, is affected through its router's path normalization code, which can crash the process when given a path with a very long run of consecutive slashes. The impact is a denial of service, and it is most relevant to deployments that allow unusually large request paths or pass attacker-controlled route strings to the router.

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Pistache is a high-performance REST toolkit written in C++. From 0.0.5 through 0.4.26, `SegmentTreeNode::sanitizeResource()` in `src/server/router.cc` uses `std::regex_replace()` with the `//+` expression to collapse consecutive slashes. With libstdc++, a path containing tens of thousands of consecutive slash characters can recurse deeply enough to exhaust the stack and crash the process. `Router::route()`, `Router::addRoute()` and `Router::removeRoute()` reach this normalization. Unauthenticated remote exploitation is conditional on a deployment allowing sufficiently long request paths, such as by increasing `Endpoint::Options::maxRequestSize()` above the default 4096-byte limit or forwarding long paths through a front end. Direct router API use is also affected when attacker-controlled route or resource strings reach the normalizer. Native builds reproduced a crash around 24,000 consecutive slashes, although the exact threshold depends on the stack and standard library; the demonstrated failure is stack exhaustion rather than uninitialized-memory use. A source fix replaces recursive regular-expression normalization with an iterative pass, but no containing repository release was verified as of time of publication.

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Affected versions

  • pistacheio pistache

    From 0.0.5 · through 0.4.26

References 2

GitHub · pistacheio/pistache