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
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High 8.1
Docling Core has insufficient validation of image reference URIs
Docling Core defines core data types and transformations for the document processing application Docling. In versions 2.5.0 and above, prior to 2.74.1, docling-core could allow local file:// image references and accepted inline data: content without a decoded…
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High 7.1
Wekan: Arbitrary file read and server DoS via attachment versions.original.path
Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.31, Wekan allows a logged-in board member to insert an attachment document through the /attachments/insert DDP method with attacker-controlled versions.original.path and versions.original.storage field…
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High 8.7
Memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers
CVE-2026-33445 is a memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers prior to 14.55. Attackers with an intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a persistent DoS against the server.
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High 7.1
Memory management error in Secure Access servers prior to 14.55
CVE-2026-33443 is a memory management error in Secure Access servers prior to 14.55. Attackers with an intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a persistent DoS against the server.
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High 7.5CVE-2026-36590 Public exploit
An issue in EMQ NanoMQ v.0.24.9 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the nni_qos_db_set function i…
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High 7.1
Twig: Sandbox resource exhaustion via unbounded `for` / `range()`
Twig is a template language for PHP. Prior to 3.26.0, the Twig sandbox does not prevent a template from consuming CPU, memory, or wall-clock time, even under the strictest allow-list, allowing untrusted templates to cause resource exhaustion. This issue is ad…
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High 7.5
Soup Sieve: Memory Exhaustion via Large Comma-Separated Selector Lists in soupsieve
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.8.4, the CSS selector parser in soupsieve allocates unbounded memory when compiling large comma-separated selector lists, allowing an attacker who can supply a crafted …
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High 7.5
Soup Sieve: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in soupsieve Selector Parser
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.8.4, the CSS selector parser in soupsieve contains a regular expression vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking when processing an attribute selector with an unterminat…
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High 7.5
Puma PROXY Protocol v1 Parser Allows Remote Memory Exhaustion
Puma is a Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism. From 5.5.0 until 7.2.1 and 8.0.2, when PROXY protocol v1 support is enabled, Puma reads incoming bytes into an internal buffer while waiting for CRLF to determine whether a PROXY v1 line is present, allowi…
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High 7.5
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker can cause uncontrolled resource con…
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High 7.5
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker can cause uncontrolled resource con…
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High 7.5
@grpc/grps-js: An incoming malformed compressed message can cause a client or server crash
@grpc/grps-js implements the core functionality of gRPC purely in JavaScript, without a C++ addon. Prior to 1.9.16, 1.10.12, 1.11.4, 1.12.7, 1.13.5, and 1.14.4, an invalid incoming compressed message can cause a client or server process that uses @grpc/grpc-j…
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High 8.2
Symfony: JsonPath Evaluates Attacker-Controlled Regular Expressions in match()/search() Without Limits — ReDoS
Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. From 7.3.0-BETA1 until 7.4.12 and 8.0.12, the JsonPath component compiles attacker-controlled match() and search() filter patterns directly into preg_match() wit…
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High 7.5
Windows DHCP Server Denial of Service Vulnerability
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Windows DHCP Server allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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High 7.5
Azure Active Directory Denial of Service Vulnerability
Loop with unreachable exit condition ('infinite loop') in Azure Active Directory allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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High 7.5
pyasn1 BER/CER/DER decoder denial of service via unbounded long-form tag IDs
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.4, the BER decoder shared by the CER and DER codecs parses long-form tags by accumulating continuation octets without an upper bound on the tag ID size, allowing a crafted input to force construction …
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High 7.5
pyasn1: Quadratic complexity in OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID processing allows denial of service
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.4, the BER, CER, and DER decoders process OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID values in quadratic time relative to the number of arcs, so a small crafted payload containing an OID with many arcs consum…
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High 7.5
pyasn1: Uncontrolled resource consumption when converting decoded REAL values
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.4, the univ.Real type converted its mantissa, base, and exponent value to a Python float using exact big-integer exponentiation. A BER, CER, or DER encoded REAL value only a few bytes long can carry a…
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High 7.5
Pillow: Decompression Bomb DoS via PdfParser.PdfStream.decode()
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.1.0 until 12.3.0, PdfParser.PdfStream.decode() in PIL/PdfParser.py calls zlib.decompress() with bufsize set to the PDF stream Length field without bounding the decompressed output size, allowing a crafted FlateDecode…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-12523 Public exploit
Resource exhaustion in quiche HTTP/3 and QPACK layers
Summary Cloudflare quiche's HTTP/3 layer was discovered to be vulnerable to resource exhaustion (i.e., memory) by means of specially crafted HTTP/3 frames. Impact HTTP/3 defines multiple frame types to support HTTP message exchanges and connection management.…
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High 7.5
Eclipse Jetty: DoS attack triggering OutOfMemory with 100-Continue requests
For requests that have a body, but reading the body may end up in reading 0 bytes, there is a buffer leak. This is particularly the case for 100-Continue, but any request where the network is slow can leak.
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High 8.3
HedgeDoc: Denial-of-service via YAML alias expansion in note frontmatter
HedgeDoc is an open source, real-time, collaborative, markdown notes application. Prior to version 1.11.0, HedgeDoc was vulnerable to a YAML alias bomb due to unsafe processing of the note frontmatter. HedgeDoc parsed frontmatter with js-yaml.load (js-yaml v3…
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High 7.5
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the receive loop of libmodbus 3.1.12 when running on Windows. The iss…
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High 8.7
Excelize: Streaming GetRows row-bound bypass causes attacker-controlled allocation
Excelize is a Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. Prior to 2.11.0, the streaming worksheet reader used by Rows and GetRows does not enforce the TotalRows limit on the row r attribute, allowing a small XLSX file with a row…
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High 7.5
Denial of service via unbounded request body size
Several Grafana API endpoints, some of them unauthenticated, do not limit the size of the request body before processing it. An attacker can send very large payloads that force excessive memory allocation, potentially exhausting memory and causing a denial of…
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High 7.5
Apache IoTDB: Unauthenticated unbounded recursion in IoTDB AirGap receiver's E-language prefix parser causes per-connection StackOverflowError
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 da…
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High 7.5
adm-zip: Crafted ZIP file triggers 4GB memory allocation
adm-zip before 0.5.18 is vulnerable to denial of service via a crafted ZIP file with a manipulated uncompressed size header field. In zipEntry.js line 103, Buffer.alloc(_centralHeader.size) allocates memory based on the declared uncompressed size from the ZIP…
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High 8.7
Incremental HTMLParser feed() allows CPU-exhaustion DoS via repeated unterminated markup declarations
The incremental HTML parser (html.parser.HTMLParser) allows for CPU denial-of-service through repeated unterminated markup declarations when processing uncontrolled data.
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High 7.7
Phantom: Arbitrary file write and decode-bomb DoS via unconfined MCP tool paths
### Impact In Phantom <= 1.3.0, when `PHANTOM_OUTPUT_DIR` was unset (the default), the MCP tools accepted arbitrary absolute output paths with no confinement. Anything able to send tool calls (e.g. an AI agent driving the MCP interface) could **write or overw…
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High 7.5
Tenda CP3 V3.0 firmware V31.1.9.91 does not validate the Content-Length header field in RTSP requests (including DESCRI…
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High 7.5
CoreWCF: Pre-authentication infinite-loop CPU exhaustion in CoreWCF net.tcp / net.pipe / net.uds framing handshake
CoreWCF is a port of the service side of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to .NET Core. Prior to 1.8.1 and 1.9.1, an unauthenticated remote attacker that can reach a NetTcpBinding, NetNamedPipeBinding, or UnixDomainSocketBinding endpoint can trigger pre…
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High 7.5
libp2p: CPU DoS via oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays
libp2p is a JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Prior to 16.0.0, @libp2p/gossipsub defaultDecodeRpcLimits set maxIhaveMessageIDs and maxIwantMessageIDs to Infinity, allowing oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays in message/decodeR…
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High 7.5
NATS Server: MQTT partial CONNECT packets can exhaust pre-auth memory
NATS Server is a high-performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to 2.14.3 and 2.12.12, an unauthenticated MQTT client could cause the server to retain large incomplete MQTT CONNECT packets before authentication complete…
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High 8.7
pypdf: Possible infinite loop for not terminated inline images
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.14.1, an attacker can craft a PDF with a page content stream containing a not terminated inline image, causing an infinite loop during inline image end marker detection such as when extractin…
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High 7.5
httplib2: Decompression Bomb Denial of Service via Unbounded gzip/deflate Response Handling
httplib2 is a comprehensive HTTP client library for Python. Prior to 0.32.0, httplib2 performs unbounded decompression of HTTP response bodies encoded with Content-Encoding: gzip or deflate in _decompressContent in httplib2/init.py, allowing a malicious or co…
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High 8.7
Immutable.js `List` 32-bit trie overflow → unrecoverable DoS
Immutable.js provides many Persistent Immutable data structures. Prior to 4.3.9 and 5.1.8, List#set, List#setSize, List#setIn, List#updateIn, and the functional set, setIn, and updateIn mishandle an index or size in the range 2 ** 30 to 2 ** 31 in setListBoun…
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High 8.7
Immutable.js: Hash-collision algorithmic complexity denial of service in Immutable.Map/Set
Immutable.js provides many Persistent Immutable data structures. Prior to 4.3.9 and 5.1.8, Immutable.Map and Immutable.Set keep keys that share the same 32-bit hash in a HashCollisionNode collision bucket that is scanned linearly, allowing an attacker who con…
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High 7.5
js-yaml: YAML merge-key chains can force quadratic CPU consumption
js-yaml is a JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. From 3.0.0 before 3.15.0 and from 4.0.0 before 4.3.0, js-yaml can spend quadratic CPU time parsing a document whose size grows only linearly when a chain of mappings uses merge keys where each mapping merges the…
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High 7.5
In OpENer 2.3.0 (commit 76b95cf), a resource exhaustion (Denial of Service) vulnerability exists in its network process…
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High 8.7
High-Severity Pre-Authentication Vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access
BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access contain a high-severity pre-authentication vulnerability in the network communication subsystem. Insufficient validation of client-supplied input may allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to trigger a…