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 7.5
ApostropheCMS: Unauthenticated CSV import requests leave rejected uploads in the system temporary directory
ApostropheCMS is an open-source Node.js content management system. Prior to 4.33.0, the unauthenticated Rich Text CSV conversion route writes a multipart upload to the system temporary directory before checking its extension and does not remove the staged fil…
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High 7.5
Eclipse ioFog renders request templates before authentication
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High 8.7
Pillow: GIF seek keeps rejected size after DecompressionBombError, allowing DoS
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 9.2.0 until 13.0.0, Pillow can retain a rejected GIF frame size after a decompression-bomb exception. In GifImageFile._seek, a crafted GIF can leave rejected dimensions stored after Image.DecompressionBombError; if an …
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High 7.5
Grav before 1.7.53.5 and 2.2.2 Image Pixel Limit Bypass Denial of Service
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High 7.5
markdown-it: Quadratic complexity in smartquotes with unmatched closing quotes
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High 8.2
AIOHTTP: File descriptor exhaustion in multipart requests
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. From 2.0.0 until 3.14.4, multipart request processing can retain an unbounded number of open file descriptors. An unauthenticated attacker can consequently exhaust file descriptor…
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High 7.5
A NULL pointer dereference in the avpriv_h264_has_num_reorder_frames function of Ffmpeg version N-119856-gbe46370941 al…
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High 7.5
phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta Unauthenticated DoS via API Pagination
phpMyFAQ 4.2.0-alpha before 4.2.0-beta contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in the unauthenticated faqs and search API endpoints. Attackers can send concurrent GET requests that load and process all database records into PHP memory, exh…
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High 7.5
jackson-core: Delayed maxNameLength enforcement for char-backed input (ReaderBasedJsonParser) allows memory-exhaustion denial of service
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High 7.1
dcg: Exponential-time command-substitution preprocessing lets a crafted command hang dcg and bypass the guard via hook-timeout fail-open
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High 7.5
pupnp: Denial of service via blocking DNS resolution in parse_uri()/GENA callback parsing
pupnp is an SDK for development of UPnP device and control point applications. Prior to 22.0.4, parse_hostport in upnp/src/genlib/net/uri/uri.c synchronously calls getaddrinfo while parse_uri is processing attacker-supplied hostnames from inbound HTTP request…
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High 7.5
FreeRDP 3.0.0 before 3.32.0 Unauthenticated Memory Exhaustion via NLA Frame Parser
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High 8.7
AdonisJS HTTP Server: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption and Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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High 7.1
Lychee: A single 383-byte PDF causes ~184 seconds of CPU consumption in the real processing path
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High 8.2
In Eclipse Vert.x versions [4.0.0, 4.5.34] or [5.0.0,5.0.12] or [5.1.0,5.1.9] or [5.2.0, 5.2.0], the TDS message decode…
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High 7.5
A Regular-Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the Markdown2. extract_metadata() function (lib/markdown2.py) of tren…
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High 7.5
Infinite loop on empty option name in startup options parameter in PgBouncer
An infinite loop in PgBouncer 1.20.0 through 1.26.0 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service. A StartupMessage whose options parameter contains an empty parameter name, such as "-c=", makes the ignore_startup_parameters list look…
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High 8.7
HTTP/2 blocked-send deadlines reset on every WINDOW_UPDATE, letting a trickle pin stream processes indefinitely in Bandit
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to pin HTTP/2 stream processes indefinitely via a trickle of small WINDOW_UPDATE frames. A stream whose response outruns the connection or stream send …
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High 8.2
Angular: Denial of Service via Numeric URL Matrix Parameters in Server-Side Rendering (SSR)
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High 8.7
Angular SSR: Denial of Service (DoS) via Infinite Loop on Malformed DOCTYPE
Angular is a development platform for building mobile and desktop web applications using TypeScript/JavaScript and other languages. Prior to 20.3.31, 21.2.23, and 22.1.6, the @angular/platform-server DOM emulation parser can enter an infinite synchronous loop…
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High 7.5
CAI Content Credentials | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, resulting in an application denial-of-service…
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High 7.5
CAI Content Credentials | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, resulting in an application denial-of-service…
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High 7.5
CAI Content Credentials | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, resulting in an application denial-of-service…
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High 7.5
CAI Content Credentials | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, resulting in an application denial-of-service…
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High 7.5
CAI Content Credentials | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
CAI Content Credentials is affected by an Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability that could lead to application denial-of-service. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust system resources, resulting in an application denial-of-service…
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High 7.5
ColdFusion | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
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High 7.8
Microsoft OpenSSH for Windows Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Double free in OpenSSH for Windows allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
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High 8.8
Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Use after free in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.
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High 8.6
Denial-of-service in the Exchange email component
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High 7.5
IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Liberty are affected by a denial of service
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High 7.5
An issue in libass v.0.17.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the ass_outline_construct() in li…
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High 7.5
IBM Aspera Enterprise Webapps Denial of Service
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High 7.5
Maximo AI Service Denial of Service
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High 7.5
IBM Maximo Application Suite - IoT Component Denial of Service
IBM Maximo Application Suite - IoT Component 9.2.0, 9.1.0, and 9.0.0 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to an infinite parsing loop when processing certain inputs.
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High 7.5
WooCommerce Bookings < 3.11.0 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service
The WooCommerce Bookings WordPress plugin before 3.11.0 does not limit a user-supplied value before using it to allocate memory in one of its unauthenticated AJAX actions, allowing unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server memory and cause a Denial of Servi…
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High 7.5
yopass Prometheus metrics middleware allows remote memory exhaustion through unbounded method labels
yopass is a service for securely sharing secrets, passwords, and files. Prior to version 14.7.0, the Prometheus metrics middleware in pkg/server/server.go uses the attacker-controlled r.Method value directly as the method label for yopass_http_requests_total …
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High 7.5
ageLANServer: Unbounded JSON Array Allocation in AoE3 Cloud `getFileURL` Endpoint Leads to Remote Denial of Service
ageLANServer provides a cross-platform web server and launcher for offline multiplayer in several Age of Empires and Age of Mythology games. Prior to version 1.15.2, the AoE3 POST /game/cloud/getFileURL handler in the bundled game server has no request body s…
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High 8.2
Denial of Service via Eager Array Allocation During Deserialization in Guava
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High 7.5
Nginx UI: Unauthenticated signed-request body staging can exhaust temporary storage
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High 7.5
Apache CXF: FIQL Query Parser Denial of Service
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