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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Medium 6.5
Resource Consumption Identified in NTP before 4.2.4p8 and 4.2.5
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Honeywell Niagara Framework on Windows, Linux, QNX allows Content Spoofing.This issue affects Niagara Framework: before Niagara AX 3.8.1, before Niagara 4.1.
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Medium 5.5
Denial of service due to unbounded recursion in QuickTimeVideo::multipleEntriesDecoder in Exiv2
Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version v0.28.1: an unbounded recursion can cause Exiv2 to crash by exhausting the stack. The vul…
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Medium 5.3
Jwcrypto: denail of service via specifically crafted jwe
A vulnerability was found in JWCrypto. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) attack and possible password brute-force and dictionary attacks to be more resource-intensive. This issue can result in a large amount of computational cons…
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Medium 6.5
Processing of user-defined mail search expressions is not limited. Availability of OX App Suite could be reduced due to…
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Medium 6.5
Processing time of drive search expressions now gets monitored, and the related request is terminated if a resource thr…
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 4.3
Excessive CPU usage when URI template matcher is configured using regex in Envoy
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Medium 4.3
Denial of service in mattermost mobile apps and server via emoji reactions
Mattermost fails to check if a custom emoji reaction exists when sending it to a post and to limit the amount of custom emojis allowed to be added in a post, allowing an attacker sending a huge amount of non-existent custom emojis in a post to crash the mobil…
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Medium 6.5
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator denial of service
IBM Sterling B2B Integrator 6.0.0.0 through 6.0.3.8 and 6.1.0.0 through 6.1.2.3 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption. IBM X-Force ID: 255827.
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Medium 6.5
IBM Integration Bus for z/OS denial of service
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 5.5
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Medium 6.5
Liferay Portal denial of service (memory consumption)
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Medium 5.3
In JetBrains Toolbox App before 2.2 a DoS attack was possible via a malicious SVG image
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Medium 6.5
IBM Security Access Manager Container denial of service
IBM Security Access Manager Container (IBM Security Verify Access Appliance 10.0.0.0 through 10.0.6.1 and IBM Security Verify Access Docker 10.0.0.0 through 10.0.6.1) is vulnerable to a denial of service attacks on the DSC server. IBM X-Force ID: 254776.
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Medium 5.5
QTS, QuTS hero, QuTScloud
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Medium 4.7
mailcow ipixel flood attack leads to Denial of Service in admin page
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Medium 6.5
Bref Uploaded Files Not Deleted in Event-Driven Functions
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Medium 6.2
Uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in SE-elektronic GmbH E-DDC3.3
Uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in SE-elektronic GmbH E-DDC3.3 affecting versions 03.07.03 and higher. An attacker could interrupt the availability of the administration panel by sending multiple ICMP packets.
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Medium 5.5
An incorrect permissions vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo App Store app that could allow an attacker to use sys…
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Medium 6.5
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: UDF). Supported versions that are affecte…
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Medium 4.9
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: DML). Supported versions that are affecte…
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Medium 4.9
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: DDL). Supported versions that are affecte…
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Medium 6.5
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are a…
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Medium 4.9
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are a…
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Medium 4.9
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are a…
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Medium 4.4
Vulnerability in the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit product of Oracle Systems (component: Core). The supported versio…
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Medium 6.5
Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Optimizer). Supported versions that are a…
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Medium 4.0
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability on Sandsprite scdbg
An Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability has been found on Sandsprite Scdbg.exe, affecting version 1.0. This vulnerability allows an attacker to send a specially crafted shellcode payload to the '/foff' parameter and cause an application shutdown. A…
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Medium 4.3
Insufficient control of custom field value sizes
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Medium 6.4
quic-go's path validation mechanism can cause denial of service
quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol (RFC 9000, RFC 9001, RFC 9002) in Go. An attacker can cause its peer to run out of memory sending a large number of PATH_CHALLENGE frames. The receiver is supposed to respond to each PATH_CHALLENGE frame with …
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Medium 4.8
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Medium 4.3
SourceCodester Engineers Online Portal File Upload resource consumption
A vulnerability was found in SourceCodester Engineers Online Portal 1.0. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component File Upload Handler. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. It is possible to launch the …
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Medium 6.5
Cri-o: pods are able to break out of resource confinement on cgroupv2
A flaw was found in CRI-O that involves an experimental annotation leading to a container being unconfined. This may allow a pod to specify and get any amount of memory/cpu, circumventing the kubernetes scheduler and potentially resulting in a denial of servi…
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Medium 6.8
Microsoft Identity Denial of service vulnerability
Microsoft Identity Denial of service vulnerability
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Medium 4.3
Denial of Service of an Investigation in Splunk Enterprise Security through Investigation attachments
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Medium 5.7
Autel EVO NANO drone flight control firmware version 1.6.5 is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS).
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Medium 4.9
Possible deadlock in Linux kernel event handling
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Medium 5.5
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Medium 5.9
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