Vulnerability · Published Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-52852Traccar: Uncontrolled Infinite Loop DoS via Group Parent Cycle
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in traccar from traccar. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 45% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
Traccar is an open source GPS tracking system. Prior to 6.14.0, an authenticated user with permission to manage groups and request reports can create a cyclic group-parent hierarchy and request a trips or stops report for a device in that hierarchy. org.traccar.api.resource.GroupResource permits the parent cycle, while org.traccar.helper.model.AttributeUtil.lookup follows group parents without cycle detection, a visited set, or a depth limit. The storage-backed lookup reached through TripsConfig. and ReportUtils.slowTripsAndStops never terminates, pins a Jetty worker at high CPU after the client disconnects, and can exhaust the web/API worker pool when requests are repeated. The position-ingestion cache-backed path is not part of the confirmed affected scope. This issue is fixed in 6.14.0.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-674 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/security/advisories/GHSA-6qh3-234v-r254 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/commit/8f6f59ac29d8b1222254e938672a0d99098fd800 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/traccar/traccar/releases/tag/v6.14.0 x_refsource_MISC