diff --git a/packages/utils/src/colors.ts b/packages/utils/src/colors.ts
index be258195c2e3..f486002473bc 100644
--- a/packages/utils/src/colors.ts
+++ b/packages/utils/src/colors.ts
@@ -74,10 +74,14 @@ export function createColors(isTTY = false): Colors {
     || 'CI' in process.env)
 
   const replaceClose = (string: string, close: string, replace: string, index: number): string => {
-    const start = string.substring(0, index) + replace
-    const end = string.substring(index + close.length)
-    const nextIndex = end.indexOf(close)
-    return ~nextIndex ? start + replaceClose(end, close, replace, nextIndex) : start + end
+    let result = ''
+    let cursor = 0
+    do {
+      result += string.substring(cursor, index) + replace
+      cursor = index + close.length
+      index = string.indexOf(close, cursor)
+    } while (~index)
+    return result + string.substring(cursor)
   }
 
   const formatter = (open: string, close: string, replace = open) => {
diff --git a/test/core/test/utils.spec.ts b/test/core/test/utils.spec.ts
index 359e34126103..3e9344f52b17 100644
--- a/test/core/test/utils.spec.ts
+++ b/test/core/test/utils.spec.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { beforeAll, describe, expect, test } from 'vitest'
-import { assertTypes, deepClone, objDisplay, objectAttr, toArray } from '@vitest/utils'
+import { assertTypes, createColors, deepClone, objDisplay, objectAttr, toArray } from '@vitest/utils'
 import { deepMerge, resetModules } from '../../../packages/vitest/src/utils'
 import { deepMergeSnapshot } from '../../../packages/snapshot/src/port/utils'
 import type { EncodedSourceMap } from '../../../packages/vite-node/src/types'
@@ -285,3 +285,13 @@ describe('objDisplay', () => {
     expect(objDisplay(value)).toEqual(expected)
   })
 })
+
+describe(createColors, () => {
+  test('no maximum call stack error', () => {
+    process.env.FORCE_COLOR = '1'
+    delete process.env.GITHUB_ACTIONS
+    const c = createColors()
+    expect(c.isColorSupported).toBe(true)
+    expect(c.blue(c.blue('x').repeat(10000))).toBeTruthy()
+  })
+})