Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1325: Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation
The product manages a group of objects or resources and performs a separate memory allocation for each object, but it does not properly limit the total amount of memory that is consumed by all of the combined objects.
More detail
While the product might limit the amount of memory that is allocated in a single operation for a single object (such as a malloc of an array), if an attacker can cause multiple objects to be allocated in separate operations, then this might cause higher total memory consumption than the developer intended, leading to a denial of service.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Implementation
Ensure multiple allocations of the same kind of object are properly tracked - possibly across multiple sessions, requests, or messages. Define an appropriate strategy for handling requests that exceed the limit, and consider supporting a configuration option so that the administrator can extend the amount of memory to be used if necessary.
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Operation
Run the program using system-provided resource limits for memory. This might still cause the program to crash or exit, but the impact to the rest of the system will be minimized.
Source: MITRE CWE-1325
29 results · Feed
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Critical 9.2
RCE via stale global state
PHP has various global state that temporarily points into request memory. In some scenarios, global state may not be correctly reset, or may be repopulated after being reset. The global state may then refer to request memory even after it has been freed. Subs…
KEV Oct 26, 2026 -
Critical 9.2
RCE via OOM corruption
PHP uses longjmp() for out-of-memory (OOM) errors to exit the current context and abort handling of the request. Some contexts may not properly account for this scenario and leave request memory in an uninitialized state before performing an allocation. The s…
KEV Oct 26, 2026 -
Medium 5.3
MessagePack: Nested arrays can blow past buffer length limits
MessagePack for C# is a MessagePack serializer for C#. Prior to 2.5.303 and 3.1.9, deserializing attacker-controlled MessagePack data as System.Object through PrimitiveObjectFormatter can cause excessive memory allocation. The formatter allocates an object[] …
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Medium 5.3
Microsoft Security Advisory CVE-2026-92707 - ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
## Executive summary Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in Microsoft.AspNetCore.SignalR.Protocols.MessagePack; MessagePack; MessagePack.Annotations; MessagePackAnalyzer. This advisory also provides guida…
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Medium 5.5
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark
USB HID protocol dissector infinite loop and memory leak in 4.6.0 to 4.6.8 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.18 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.3
Mermaid XY Charts are vulnerable to an infinite loop DoS
Mermaid is a JavaScript tool that uses Markdown-inspired text to create and modify diagrams and charts. From version 10.6.0 until 10.9.8 and 11.16.1, Mermaid XY Charts are vulnerable to an infinite loop denial of service in the setXAxisRangeData function when…
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Medium 6.5
Improperly controlled sequential memory allocation vulnerability in Samsung Open Source rlottie allows Exponential Data…
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Medium 5.3
guzzlehttp/guzzle before 7.15.1 Unbounded Cookie Denial of Service
guzzlehttp/guzzle versions before 7.15.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the CookieJar that accepts unlimited Set-Cookie header fields with no size restrictions. Attackers can return many large cookies from a malicious server, causing Guzzle to s…
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Medium 6.9
veraPDF Parser DoS via PostScript Type 1 Font Programs
veraPDF PDF parser is a PDF parser for veraPDF. Prior to 1.30.2 and 1.31.23, veraPDF-parser contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/type1/Type1FontProgram.java and veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf…
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Medium 6.9
veraPDF Parser DoS via PostScript CMap Streams
veraPDF PDF parser is a PDF parser for veraPDF. Prior to 1.30.2 and 1.31.23, veraPDF-parser contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/pd/font/cmap/CMapParser.java and veraPDF-parser/src/main/java/org/verapdf/parser…
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Medium 6.5
A user with read access can cause a DoS by executing a specifically crafted query to consume a large amount of RAM
Using expressions that generate large arrays it is possible to craft a query that creates very large intermediate objects in memory, causing the server to crash with OOM error.
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High 7.5
Unbounded Memory Growth in the QUIC PATH_CHALLENGE Handler
Issue summary: Remote peer may exhaust heap memory of the QUIC server or client by flooding it with packets containing PATH_CHALLENGE frames. Impact summary: A malicious remote peer can cause an unbounded memory allocation which can lead to an abnormal termin…
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Medium 6.5
Post-auth memory exhaustion via bitwise match expressions
An authenticated user can cause excess memory usage via bitwise match expression AST processing of $bitsAllSet, $bitsAnySet, $bitsAllClear, and $bitsAnyClear. This contributes to memory pressure and may lead to availability loss by OOM. This issue impacts Mon…
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Medium 5.5
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark
Dissection engine zlib decompression crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.5
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark
Dissection engine LZ77 decompression crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.5
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark
WebSocket protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
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Medium 5.5
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark
SMB2 protocol dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.4 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.14 allows denial of service
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High 7.5
Meridian: Multiple defense-in-depth gaps (collection/depth caps, telemetry, retry, fan-out)
## Summary Meridian v2.1.0 (`Meridian.Mapping` and `Meridian.Mediator`) shipped with nine defense-in-depth gaps reachable through its public APIs. Two are HIGH severity — the advertised `DefaultMaxCollectionItems` and `DefaultMaxDepth` safety caps are silentl…
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Medium 4.7
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark
USB HID protocol dissector memory exhaustion in Wireshark 4.6.0 to 4.6.3 and 4.4.0 to 4.4.13 allows denial of service
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Medium 6.3
An out-of-memory (OOM) issue in foxinmy/weixin4j
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation vulnerability in foxinmy weixin4j (weixin4j-base/src/main/java/com/foxinmy/weixin4j/util modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files CharArrayBuffer.Java, ClassUtil.Java. This issue affects …
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Medium 5.5
Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation in Wireshark
HTTP3 dissector crash in Wireshark 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 allows denial of service
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High 7.5
Smallrye-fault-tolerance: smallrye fault tolerance
A flaw was found in Smallrye, where smallrye-fault-tolerance is vulnerable to an out-of-memory (OOM) issue. This vulnerability is externally triggered when calling the metrics URI. Every call creates a new object within meterMap and may lead to a denial of se…
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Medium 5.3
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC Energy Manager Basic (All versions < V7.5), SIMATIC Energy Manager PRO (…
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High 8.1
The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.8 and iPadOS 16.7.8, iOS 17.5 and iPadOS …
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High 8.1CVE-2024-27804 Public exploit
The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.5 and iPadOS 17.5, macOS Sonoma 14…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2024-2511 EPSS 59%
Unbounded memory growth with session handling in TLSv1.3
Issue summary: Some non-default TLS server configurations can cause unbounded memory growth when processing TLSv1.3 sessions Impact summary: An attacker may exploit certain server configurations to trigger unbounded memory growth that would lead to a Denial o…
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High 7.5
A stack exhaustion flaw in control channel code may cause named to terminate unexpectedly
The code that processes control channel messages sent to `named` calls certain functions recursively during packet parsing. Recursion depth is only limited by the maximum accepted packet size; depending on the environment, this may cause the packet-parsing co…
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Medium 5.3
Junos OS: SRX Series: Policies that rely on JDPI-Decoder actions may fail open
An Improperly Controlled Sequential Memory Allocation vulnerability in the Juniper Networks Deep Packet Inspection-Decoder (JDPI-Decoder) Application Signature component of Junos OS's AppID service on SRX Series devices will stop the JDPI-Decoder from identif…
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High 7.5
gzip transfer encoding caused out-of-memory crash
NLnet Labs Routinator versions 0.9.0 up to and including 0.10.1, support the gzip transfer encoding when querying RRDP repositories. This encoding can be used by an RRDP repository to cause an out-of-memory crash in these versions of Routinator. RRDP uses XML…