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