CVE-2025-57809 (GCVE-0-2025-57809)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-25 21:22 – Updated: 2025-08-26 20:19
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
XGrammar affected by Denial of Service by infinite recursion grammars
Summary
XGrammar is an open-source library for efficient, flexible, and portable structured generation. Prior to version 0.1.21, XGrammar has an infinite recursion issue in the grammar. This issue has been resolved in version 0.1.21.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-08-26 20:19 UTC
CWE
- CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/mlc-ai/xgrammar/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/mlc-ai/xgrammar/issues/250 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/mlc-ai/xgrammar/commit/b943fea… | x_refsource_MISC |
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