Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
How to prevent it (4 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place. The login application should be protected against DoS attacks as much as possible. Limiting the database access, perhaps by caching result sets, can help minimize the resources expended. To further limit the potential for a DoS attack, consider tracking the rate of requests received from users and blocking requests that exceed a defined rate threshold.
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Architecture and Design
Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either:
- recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or
- uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed.
The first of these solutions is an issue in itself though, since it may allow attackers to prevent the use of the system by a particular valid user. If the attacker impersonates the valid user, they may be able to prevent the user from accessing the server in question.
The second solution is simply difficult to effectively institute -- and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply makes the attack require more resources on the part of the attacker.
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Architecture and Design
Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
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Implementation
Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.
Source: MITRE CWE-400
4,036 results · Feed
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Medium 5.5
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 Vorbis Parser CPU Exhaustion via Invalid Extradata
FFmpeg through 9.0.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in libavcodec/vorbis_parser.c that re-parses invalid extradata for every packet when valid_extradata remains false. Attackers can supply crafted Ogg or Matroska Vorbis streams with large invalid …
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High 7.5
Multiple vulnerabilities previously addressed in IBM SevOne Network Performance Management
IBM SevOne Network Performance Management 7.0.0 through 8.2.2 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption.
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High 7.5
Hibernate Validator is affected by an expression language injection vulnerability
Hibernate Validator could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption resulting from improper escaping of user-controlled data in Expression Language (EL) expressions.
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High 7.5
imgproxy 3.3.0 before 4.0.16 Memory Exhaustion DoS via ICO Loader
imgproxy from 3.3.0 before 4.0.16 contains an unbounded memory allocation vulnerability in the ICO loader that fails to validate the data_size field. Attackers can supply a crafted 23-byte ICO file declaring a ~4GB data_size to trigger memory exhaustion and w…
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High 7.5
Hickory-DNS Recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 Glueless-NS Referral Amplification
The hickory-dns recursor in hickory-recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-resolver 0.26.0-alpha.1 before 0.26.2 iterates every out-of-bailiwick NS target lacking glue in a referral without any per-query work budget. Remote attackers can serve suc…
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High 7.5
Hickory DNS 0.26.0-beta.1 before 0.26.2 Resource Exhaustion DoS via NameServerPool::try_send TC-Retry Loop
Hickory DNS hickory-resolver 0.26.0-beta.1 before 0.26.2 contains an unbounded retry loop in NameServerPool::try_send, which re-queues truncated (TC) responses without checking the answering transport or counting iterations. A malicious authoritative server r…
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High 7.5
Hickory DNS 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 Query Amplification via Cyclic Referrals
Hickory DNS 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 contains a query amplification vulnerability in its recursive resolver, which mishandles cyclic sibling name server referrals that lack glue records. Attackers controlling two zones whose name servers reference each o…
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Medium 5.3
Hickory DNS 0.25.0 before 0.26.2 Query Amplification via Irrelevant CNAME Records
The hickory-resolver component of Hickory DNS 0.25.0 before 0.26.2 follows irrelevant CNAME records when resolving recursive queries, sending queries that are unnecessary to answer the original request. Attackers controlling DNS responses can include CNAME re…
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High 7.5
Hickory DNS from 0.18 before 0.26.2 Memory Amplification DoS via RR Counts
The DNS wire-format message parser in hickory-proto (Hickory DNS) 0.18 before 0.26.2 preallocates record vectors sized by the untrusted ANCOUNT, NSCOUNT, and ARCOUNT header fields before reading record data. Remote attackers can send a UDP datagram, or a spoo…
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High 7.5
Devalue before 5.9.3 CPU Amplification Denial of Service via uneval
Sveltejs devalue before 5.9.3 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to cause CPU amplification by supplying sparse arrays to uneval. Attackers who influence sparse values passed to uneval can force synchronous work proportional to t…
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High 7.5
Devalue before 5.9.3 Quadratic Expansion Denial of Service via uneval
Sveltejs devalue before 5.9.3 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability where repeated primitive strings cause quadratic expansion in the uneval function. Attackers can supply a small crafted payload that is parsed and then passed to uneval, producing a ve…
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High 7.5
Sveltejs devalue before 5.9.3 Memory Exhaustion via uneval Sparse Arrays
Sveltejs devalue from 1.0.0 before 5.9.3 contains a memory exhaustion flaw in uneval, whose generated code for sparse arrays allocates memory proportional to the array's declared length when evaluated. Attackers who can influence a very large sparse array ser…
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High 8.8
Vikunja 1.0.0 before 2.7.1 Pagination Limit Bypass via page=0 Parameter
Vikunja from 1.0.0 before 2.7.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows authenticated users to bypass service.maxitemsperpage by sending page=0 to /api/v1 list endpoints. Attackers can self-register and repeatedly request page=…
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Medium 4.3
Vikunja before 2.7.1 Orphaned Export Archives Enable Disk Exhaustion
Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains an improper resource cleanup vulnerability that leaves full-data export archives orphaned on disk after re-exports, failed exports, or account deletion. Authenticated users can repeatedly re-trigger exports containing all their a…
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Medium 6.5
Vikunja before 2.7.1 Memory Exhaustion DoS via Unbounded Image Decodes
Vikunja before 2.7.1 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows authenticated users to exhaust server memory through concurrent image decodes in avatar and background uploads. Attackers can send several parallel tiny, highly compr…
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High 7.7
Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM API Connect
IBM API Connect 10.0.8.0 through 10.0.8.12 and 12.1.0.0 through 12.1.1.2 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption. Certain requests can cause internal processing to stall, which could ma…
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Medium 5.9
JSON-java: JSONTokener Has Unbounded Numeric String Resource-Exhaustion DoS
JSON-java is a reference implementation of a JSON package in Java. From version 20150729 through 20260522, JSONTokener.nextSimpleValue can accumulate unbounded numeric tokens before JSONObject.stringToNumber passes them to BigInteger or BigDecimal conversion …
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High 7.5
GROBID: Unauthenticated `/api/modelTraining` Endpoint Allows Unbounded Thread Pool Creation (DoS)
GROBID is machine learning software for extracting information from scholarly documents. Prior to 0.9.1, the unauthenticated /api/modelTraining endpoint calls GrobidRestProcessTraining.trainModel in GrobidRestProcessTraining.java, where each request creates E…
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High 7.5
Nuxt Content: Unauthenticated SQLite Function DoS via Content Query API
Nuxt Content is the file-based CMS for Nuxt applications, powered by Markdown and Vue components. From 3.0.0 until 3.15.2, the unauthenticated POST /__nuxt_content/:collection/query endpoint accepts an attacker-controlled sql field in src/runtime/api/query.po…
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Medium 4.3
chenyme grok2api WebSocket Proxy voice_ws_handler.go proxyVoiceWebSocket resource consumption
A security flaw has been discovered in chenyme grok2api up to 3.1.6. Affected by this vulnerability is the function proxyVoiceWebSocket of the file backend/internal/transport/http/inference/voice_ws_handler.go of the component WebSocket Proxy. The manipulatio…
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High 7.5
Regexp2: Unbounded memory amplification via large `{m}` quantifier on a zero-width subexpression
Regexp2 is a feature-rich RegExp engine for Go. Prior to version 2.3.0, when regexp2 compiles and matches a pattern containing a large fixed-count quantifier applied to a zero-width subexpression — e.g. (?:){50000000} — the match engine executes the empty loo…
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High 7.5
Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unauthenticated denial of service via saml soap endpoint unbounded xml parsing
A flaw was found in the SAML implementation of Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution. The SAML Artifact Resolution and ECP SOAP endpoints do not properly limit the size or complexity of incoming XML requests. An unauthenticated remo…
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High 7.7
OpenHuman: Unauthenticated dictation WebSocket allows arbitrary audio streaming and unbounded memory growth
OpenHuman is an open-source agent harness available as a desktop application and Rust library. Before version 0.57.44, its local /ws/dictation WebSocket endpoint lacks client authentication and browser-origin validation. An unauthenticated client, including…
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High 7.5
Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unauthenticated persistent disk exhaustion via theme gzip cache
A flaw was found in the theme resource endpoint of Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution. The issue occurs because the server fails to validate theme names before using them as keys for an on-disk gzip cache. An unauthenticated atta…
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High 7.5
Keycloak-services: keycloak-services: unauthenticated cpu denial of service via saml xml datetime and duration parsing
A flaw was found in the SAML XML processing component of Keycloak, an open-source identity and access management solution. The issue occurs when the server parses XML documents containing excessively long dateTime or duration values. Because these strings are…
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Medium 6.5
espressif/mdns has Uncontrolled Recursion in mDNS Name Decompression
ESP-Protocols is a collection of protocol components for ESP-IDF. Prior to mDNS version 1.11.2, the `mdns` component follows DNS name-compression pointers recursively when parsing fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) in inbound mDNS packets without capping po…
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Unscored —
Apache OFBiz: Denial of Service via unauthenticated userTenantId in multitenant mode
In multitenant deployments, ContextFilter and LoginWorker built a per-tenant delegator name from a request-supplied userTenantId parameter and requested a delegator for it before confirming the tenant existed. DelegatorFactory's internal cache retains every d…
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Unscored —
In the LTE RRC component, improper handling of messages before authentication triggers a data abort, which leads to a d…
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Medium 6.2
Kyverno before 1.19.2 Denial of Service via Unbounded CEL Policy Evaluation Cost
Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows namespace-scoped policy authors to exhaust CPU and memory by submitting CEL expressions evaluated without runtime cost limits. Attackers can create a NamespacedValidatingPolicy or Na…
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Medium 4.3
laspy LAS File lasreader.py memory allocation
A vulnerability has been found in laspy up to 2.7.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file laspy/lasreader.py of the component LAS File Handler. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled memory allocation. Remote exploitation of the at…
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Medium 6.9
tsParticles: A single anonymous MCP session can monopolize HTTP mode and deny new clients
tsParticles is a TypeScript library for creating highly customizable particle animations. Prior to 4.3.2, the HTTP mode of @tsparticles/mcp-server reuses one stateful StreamableHTTPServerTransport for every client. An unauthenticated client that sends the fir…
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High 7.5
tsParticles: Unbounded HTTP Request Body Buffering in @tsparticles/mcp-server Leads to Remote DoS
tsParticles is a TypeScript library for creating highly customizable particle animations. Prior to 4.3.1, the HTTP mode of @tsparticles/mcp-server accepts unauthenticated POST /mcp requests in integrations/mcp-server/src/index.ts and accumulates every request…
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Low 3.3
Multiple vulnerabilities that affects IBM Db2 Genius Hub
IBM Db2 Genius Hub 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5 could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption.
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High 8.7
Pre-authentication upload parsing permits resource exhaustion
SEPPmail Secure Email Gateway before 15.1.1 processes and writes v1 file-interface upload data before authenticating the caller and without an absolute request-size limit. An unauthenticated remote attacker can occupy workers and consume temporary storage wit…
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Medium 4.3
Tanium addressed an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Discover.
Tanium addressed an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Discover.
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High 8.2
Angular: Denial of Service via RouterLink Query Parameter Retention in Server-Side Rendering (SSR)
Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. From 21.2.0 until 21.2.25 and 22.2.1, RouterLink directives rendered during Node.js server-side rendering retain computed UrlTr…
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High 8.2
Angular: Denial of Service via Unmatched Empty-Path Outlet Route Matching in Server-Side Rendering (SSR)
Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 20.3.33, 21.2.25, and 22.2.1, @angular/router in Node.js server-side rendering fails to require auxiliary outlet URL s…
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Low 3.8
Authenticated Local Denial-of-Service Vulnerability in HPE Networking Fabric Composer
A denial-of-service vulnerability has been identified in HPE Networking Fabric Composer. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a low-privileged local attacker to cause a partial denial-of-service condition affecting other workloads on the …
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High 7.5
Unauthenticated Remote Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer
A vulnerability in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to conduct a denial of service attack. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to cause the management services to become unavailable.
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Medium 4.3
isomorphic-git: Unbounded memory allocation from attacker-controlled delta target size (DoS)
isomorphic-git is a pure JavaScript implementation of Git for Node.js and browsers. Prior to 1.38.6, isomorphic-git reads a server-controlled targetSize while applying a packfile delta in src/utils/applyDelta.js and passes it without a bound to Buffer.alloc(t…