CVE-2026-55254 (GCVE-0-2026-55254)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-17 19:55 – Updated: 2026-07-20 18:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
NCalc: Denial of Service via Unbounded and Non-Terminating Factorial Evaluation
Summary
NCalc is a fast, lightweight expression evaluator for .NET. Prior to 6.1.1, the factorial operator implementation in src/NCalc.Core/Helpers/MathHelper.cs permits specially crafted expressions with extremely large factorial operands, causing excessive CPU consumption or a non-terminating loop due to integer overflow in the factorial calculation logic when applications evaluate untrusted expressions. This issue is fixed in version 6.1.1.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-20 18:06 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/ncalc/ncalc/security/advisorie… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/ncalc/ncalc/pull/575 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/ncalc/ncalc/commit/eeb6155ee18… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/ncalc/ncalc/releases/tag/v6.1.1 | x_refsource_MISC |
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