CVE-2026-40007: Apache IoTDB: Unauthenticated unbounded recursion in IoTDB AirGap receiver's E-language prefix parser causes per-connection StackOverflowError

[Haonan Hou <haonan () apache org>]

Severity: moderate 

Affected versions:

- Apache IoTDB 1.0.0 before 2.0.10

Description:

Uncontrolled Recursion, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache IoTDB.
When pipe_air_gap_receiver_enabled=true, the IoTDB AirGap receiver's
readLength method calls itself recursively each time it recognises the
E-language prefix in socket data, with no depth limit. An unauthenticated
attacker can send a stream of repeated E-language prefixes that drives the
recursion arbitrarily deep, exhausting the receiver thread's JVM stack and
raising StackOverflowError.


This issue affects Apache IoTDB: from 1.0.0 before 2.0.10.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.10, which fixes the issue.

Credit:

bugbunny.ai (finder)

References:

https://iotdb.apache.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40007