High severity · published Mar 3, 2025
CVE-2025-27421
Goroutine Leak in Abacus SSE Implementation
7.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Abacus is a highly scalable and stateless counting API. A critical goroutine leak vulnerability has been identified in the Abacus server's Server-Sent Events (SSE) implementation. The issue occurs when clients disconnect from the /stream endpoint, as the server fails to properly clean up resources and terminate associated goroutines. This leads to resource exhaustion where the server continues running but eventually stops accepting new SSE connections while maintaining high memory usage. The vulnerability specifically involves improper channel cleanup in the event handling mechanism, causing goroutines to remain blocked indefinitely. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.4.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 35% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AB
abacus · JasonLovesDoggo
< 1.4.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27421
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27421
github.com
https://github.com/JasonLovesDoggo/abacus/commit/898ff1204e11317cc161240b660e63eed5a72b33
github.com
https://github.com/JasonLovesDoggo/abacus/security/advisories/GHSA-vh64-54px-qgf8
