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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Low 2.7
IBM Security Verify Privilege denial of service
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Low 3.4
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Low 3.4
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Low 2.7
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Low 2.7
Fides Webserver Vulnerable to SVG Bomb File Uploads
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Low 3.5
OmniSharp csharp-language-server-protocol JSON Serializer SerializerBase.cs CreateSerializerSettings resource consumption
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Low 3.5CVE-2023-3163 Public exploit
y_project RuoYi filterKeyword resource consumption
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Low 2.6
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Low 3.3
Microsoft Access Denial of Service Vulnerability
Microsoft Access Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Low 2.7
Denial of service via admin theme import route in Discourse
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Low 3.1
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Low 3.4
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ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Active Support's underscore
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ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in GlobalID
A ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in the GlobalID <1.0.1 which could allow an attacker supplying a carefully crafted input can cause the regular expression engine to take an unexpected amount of time. All users running an affected release should either upgrade …
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ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch
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Denial of service via multipart parsing in Rack
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Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Content-Disposition parsing
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Low 3.5
Discourse membership requests lack character limit
Discourse is an open-source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.1 on the `stable` branch and 3.1.0.beta2 on the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, when submitting a membership request, there is no character limit for the reason provided with the reques…
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Low 3.5
cmark-gfm Quadratic complexity bug in handle_close_bracket may lead to a denial of service
cmark-gfm is GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C. Versions prior to 0.29.0.gfm.7 contain a polynomial time complexity issue in handle_close_bracket that may lead to unbounded resource exhaustion and subsequent d…
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Low 3.5
Inefficient Quadratic complexity bug in handle_pointy_brace may lead to a denial of service
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Low 3.5
cmark-gfm Quadratic complexity bugs may lead to a denial of service
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Low 3.5
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Low 3.5
Brondahl EnumStringValues EnumExtensions.cs GetStringValuesWithPreferences_Uncache resource consumption
A vulnerability was found in Brondahl EnumStringValues up to 4.0.0. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects the function GetStringValuesWithPreferences_Uncache of the file EnumStringValues/EnumExtensions.cs. The manipulation leads to r…
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Low 2.4
Nextcloud Server has no password length limit when creating a user as an administrator
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Low 3.5
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Nextcloud Server is an open source personal cloud server. Prior to versions 23.0.10 and 24.0.5, calendar name lengths are not validated before writing to a database. As a result, an attacker can send unnecessary amounts of data against the database. Version 2…
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Low 3.5
Missing length validation of user displayname in nextcloud server
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Low 3.7
WBCE CMS Header class.login.php increase_attempts excessive authentication
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in WBCE CMS. Affected by this issue is the function increase_attempts of the file wbce/framework/class.login.php of the component Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument X-Forwarded…
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Low 3.1
Server-side Denial of Service while processing a specifically crafted GIF file
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Low 3.1
Server-side Denial of Service while processing a specifically crafted JPEG file
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Low 3.7
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Low 2.9
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Infinite loop in Pillow
JpegImagePlugin may append an EOF marker to the end of a truncated file, so that the last segment of the data will still be processed by the decoder. If the EOF marker is not detected as such however, this could lead to an infinite loop where JpegImagePlugin …
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Low 3.5
High memory usage in Nextcloud server
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Low 3.7
Potential Denial-of-Service in bindata
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Low 3.7
Denial of service in Matrix Synapse
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Low 3.8
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Low —
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in braces
A vulnerability was found in Braces versions 2.2.0 and above, prior to 2.3.1. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks.
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Low 2.7
Denial-of-service in Fleet
Fleet is an open source osquery manager. In Fleet before version 3.7.0 a malicious actor with a valid node key can send a badly formatted request that causes the Fleet server to exit, resulting in denial of service. This is possible only while a live query is…
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Regex denial of service vulnerability in codesample plugin
### Impact A regex denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in a dependency of the `codesample` plugin. The vulnerability allowed poorly formed ruby code samples to lock up the browser while performing syntax highlighting. This impacts users of …
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Denial of Service via Cache Flooding
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