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 8.7
AutoGPT has a DoS vulnerability in FileStoreBlock with StepThroughItemsBlock
AutoGPT is a workflow automation platform for creating, deploying, and managing continuous artificial intelligence agents. Prior to 0.6.63, `StepThroughItemsBlock` can iterate all the contents in a list and send them to `FileStoreBlock` for downloading one by…
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High 8.7
AutoGPT has a DoS vulnerability in LoopVideoBlock
AutoGPT is a workflow automation platform for creating, deploying, and managing continuous artificial intelligence agents. Prior to 0.6.63, AutoGPT's LoopVideoBLock allows users to input a video file and process the video, such as looping it 5 times or extend…
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High 7.5
LiquidJS: Memory and render limit bypass via unbounded width padding in `date` filter (strftime)
LiquidJS is a Shopify/GitHub Pages compatible template engine written in pure JavaScript. In versions 10.25.7 and below, the date filter's strftime implementation parses width specifiers like %9999999d and forwards the captured width unchecked into pad()/padS…
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High 7.5
Steeltoe.Discovery.Eureka: Unrecognized DataCenterInfo.Name poisons entire registry fetch
Steeltoe is an open source project that provides a collection of libraries that helps users build cloud-native applications. In Steeltoe.Discovery.Eureka prior to versions 4.2.0 and 3.4.0, `DataCenterInfo.FromJson` throws `ArgumentException` for any `name` va…
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High 7.5
undici WebSocket client vulnerable to denial of service via cumulative fragment bypass
Impact: The undici WebSocket client enforces maxPayloadSize per-frame but does not enforce the cumulative size of fragmented uncompressed messages. A malicious WebSocket server can stream many small fragments that each pass per-frame validation but collective…
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High 7.5
undici WebSocket client vulnerable to denial of service via fragment count bypass
Impact: The undici WebSocket client enforces maxPayloadSize on the cumulative byte count of fragments in a message but does not enforce a limit on the number of fragments. A malicious WebSocket server can stream many small or empty continuation frames that ea…
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High 7.5
ws: Memory exhaustion DoS from tiny fragments and data chunks
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High 7.1
Vulnerability in the Oracle Solaris product of Oracle Systems (component: Filesystem). The supported version that is af…
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High 8.2
Vulnerability in the Oracle Enterprise Manager Base Platform product of Oracle Enterprise Manager (component: Agent Nex…
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High 7.5
Vulnerability in the MySQL Router product of Oracle MySQL (component: Router: General). Supported versions that are aff…
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High 7.5
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server, MySQL Cluster product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Connection Handling). Supp…
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High 7.5
Spring Cloud Sleuth instrumentation of Spring TX DoS vulnerability
In Spring Cloud Sleuth, it is possible for a user to provide specially crafted calls that may cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The application is vulnerable when it uses a vulnerable version of org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-sleuth-instrumen…
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High 7.5
multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via deeply nested field names
Impact: multer versions 1.0.0 through 2.1.1 and 3.0.0-alpha.1 are vulnerable to a Denial of Service via deeply nested field names in multipart form data. The append-field dependency parses bracket notation in field names with no limit on nesting depth, allowi…
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High 7.5
linx-server has an issue in the uploadPostHandler component that allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted POST request
An issue in the uploadPostHandler component of Andrei Marcu linx-server v2.3.8 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted POST request.
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High 7.5
An issue in the /api/v0/pastes endpoint of anna-is-cute paste v0.1.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS…
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High 7.5
An input handling flaw in the HTTP refresh token process of LLDAP v0.6.2 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service …
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High 7.5
An issue in the attachment handling component of Feuerhamster MailForm v1.1.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Ser…
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SwiftNIO NIOHTTP1: HTTPDecoder accepts unbounded HTTP/1 header blocks, enabling remote DoS
### Summary The `HTTPDecoder` in `NIOHTTP1` enforces no limit on the total size of an HTTP/1 message's header block or on the number of header fields per message. A remote peer can submit an arbitrary number of small, valid headers in a single request and hav…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-50011 Public exploit
Netty has unbounded pre-allocation in RedisArrayAggregator from RESP array length
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, RedisArrayAggregator pre-allocates ArrayList with initial capacity equal to the RESP array element count declared in an…
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High 7.5
Apache CXF: No restriction on attachment headers per message
There is no restriction on the amount of attachment headers that a message can contain when being deserialized by Apache CXF, which can lead to uncontrolled resource consumption or a denial of service attack. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 4.2.2…
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High 7.5
Netty has a Vulnerable Default Configuration Which Leads to Denial of Service via Unbounded HTTP/3 Header Size
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to version 4.2.15.Final, the default configuration of the `Http3ConnectionHandler` in the Netty HTTP/3 codec lacks an enforced maximum header size limit. When a pe…
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High 8.7
Idira Privileged Access Manager (PAM) Self-Hosted Vault: Denial of Service due to Unexpected Input Processing
Idira Privileged Access Manager (PAM) Self-Hosted Vault versions prior to 15.0.3, 14.6.5, 14.2.7, and 14.0.8 exhibit a validation vulnerability. Under specific circumstances and configuration scenarios, processing unexpected input could potentially lead to an…
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High 7.5
Netty has Unbounded Direct Memory Consumption in its RedisDecoder
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In netty-codec-redis prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, an attacker can cause DoS by sending crafted Redis payloads across multiple connections without `\…
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High 7.5
Netty: Memory Exhaustion in RedisArrayAggregator due to Deeply Nested Arrays
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In netty-codec-redis prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, an attacker can cause DoS by sending a crafted Redis payload with deeply nested arrays. This force…
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High 7.5
Axios: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via Cookie Name Injection
Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Axios versions before 0.32.0 on the 0.x line and before 1.16.0 on the 1.x line build a regular expression from the configured XSRF cookie name without escaping regex metacharacters. In standard…
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High 7.5
Unbounded Frame Count in video/jpeg Base64 Data URL Processing Leads to OOM DoS in vllm-project/vllm
vLLM versions 0.8.0 and later are vulnerable to an Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service (DoS) attack due to unbounded frame count processing in the `VideoMediaIO.load_base64()` method. When processing `video/jpeg` data URLs, the method splits the base64 data…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-46522 Public exploit
ImageMagick: Infinite Loop in the MIFF decoder can lead to CPU exhaustion
ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2.23 and 6.9.13-48, due to a missing check in the MIFF decoder, a crafted file could cause an infinite loop resulting in CPU exhaustion. Versi…
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High 7.5
libp2p: Unvalidated PUT_VALUE records allow unbounded disk exhaustion on DHT server nodes
libp2p is a JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Prior to version 16.2.6, an unauthenticated remote peer can exhaust the disk storage of any @libp2p/kad-dht node running in server mode by sending an unbounded stream of PUT_VALUE messages whos…
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High 7.5
libp2p: Memory DoS via subscription flood of unique topics
libp2p is a JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Prior to version 15.0.23, three cooperating omissions in @libp2p/gossipsub allow an unauthenticated single peer to exhaust the Node.js heap of any gossipsub node with default options. This issu…
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High 8.7
Kanidm: Unauthenticated process abort via SCIM filter stack exhaustion
Kanidm is an identity management platform. Prior to version 1.9.3, a single unauthenticated GET to any /scim/v1/... endpoint with a ?filter= query string of a few thousand nested parentheses (≈ 4–12 KB) drives the recursive-descent PEG parser past the worker …
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High 7.5
kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 DoS via SCRAM Iteration Count in scram.py
kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in SCRAM authentication handling that allows a malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker to freeze the client event loop by supplying an excessively large iteration count. In scram.py, Scr…
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High 7.5
Denial of Service in Spring Data Commons Property Path Resolution
Spring Data Commons applications may be vulnerable to denial of service through resource exhaustion when attacker-controlled property path strings are passed to MappingContext property path resolution. Affected versions: Spring Data Commons 4.0.0 through 4.0.…
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High 7.5
Unbounded DEFLATE Inflation in SAML 2.0 Service Provider
An application using spring-security-saml2-service-provider and the REDIRECT binding for SAML 2.0 Login or Logout may be vulnerable to a denial of service by way of an unbounded writer that inflates the compressed SAML payload into memory. Affected versions: …
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High 7.5
SQLFluff: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Parser
SQLFluff is a modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code. Prior to version 4.2.0, in deployments where untrusted users can provide SQL queries to be linted, an untrusted user can submit a malicious long query t…
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High 7.5
CAI Content Credentials | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
CAI Content Credentials versions c2pa-web@0.7.1, c2pa-v0.80.1 and earlier are affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, resulting in an application denial-of-servi…
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High 7.5
ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability
Uncontrolled resource consumption in ASP.NET Core allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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High 7.5
FreeSWITCH: Pre-authentication bandwidth amplification via `mod_verto` speed-test frames
FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to version 1.11.1, mod_verto's WebSocket frame loop intercepts a #-pre…
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High 7.5
Spring Framework Denial of Service via Versioned Resources in Spring MVC and WebFlux
Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks when resolving static resources. Affected versions: Spring Framework 7.0.0 through 7.0.7; 6.2.0 through 6.2.18; 6.1.0 through 6.1.27; 5.3.0 through 5.3.48.
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High 7.5
Micrometer HTTP server instrumentations DoS vulnerability
In Micrometer, it is possible for a user to provide specially crafted HTTP requests that may cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Affected versions: micrometer-core 1.16.0 through 1.16.5; 1.15.0 through 1.15.11; 1.14.0 through 1.14.15; 1.13.0 through 1.…
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High 7.5
Micrometer gRPC server instrumentation DoS vulnerability
In Micrometer, it is possible for a user to provide specially crafted gRPC requests that may cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Affected versions: Micrometer 1.16.0 through 1.16.5; 1.15.0 through 1.15.11.