Common Weakness Enumeration
CWE Definition / CWE-674
CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
Published:11 Apr 2008
Organization:MITRE
Modified:30 Apr 2026
Related Weakness
CWE-834: Excessive Iteration
