CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2026-3385 — A vulnerability was detected in wren-lang wren up to 0.4.0

Medium CVSS 5.5

A vulnerability was detected in wren-lang wren up to 0.4.0. Affected is the function resolveLocal of the file src/vm/wren_compiler.c. The manipulation results in uncontrolled recursion. Attacking locally is a requirement. The exploit is now public and may be used. The project was informed of the problem early through an issue report but has not responded yet.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2026-03-01
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-404, CWE-674

Affected products

  • wren / wren

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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