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
4,045 results · Feed
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High 8.2
WP Recipe Maker 9.8.0 - 10.8.1 - Unauthenticated DoS via Unbounded User Meta Insertion
The WP Recipe Maker WordPress plugin before 10.8.2 does not have any authorisation check in one of its REST routes, nor does it bound what that route stores, allowing unauthenticated users to write unlimited data into any user's metadata and to permanently pr…
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High 8.2
Divi Dash < 1.0.7 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via IP Address Spoofing
The divi-dash WordPress plugin before 1.0.7 does not validate the source of the client IP address it uses for rate limiting and banning, allowing unauthenticated attackers to spoof arbitrary IP addresses in order to bypass rate limiting, ban chosen addresses …
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High 7.5
jackson-databind: quadratic forward-reference completion in Collection and Map deserializers
Forward-reference completion for @JsonIdentityInfo object IDs in FasterXML jackson-databind performs a linear scan of the pending-reference accumulator for every resolved ID. The affected paths are CollectionDeserializer.CollectionReferringAccumulator.resolve…
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High 7.5
jackson-databind: unbounded growth of the type id cache in TypeDeserializerBase retains every unknown raw type ID
TypeDeserializerBase._findDeserializer() in FasterXML jackson-databind caches the resolved deserializer under the raw, attacker-supplied type ID. When name-based polymorphism is configured with a fallback, for example @JsonTypeInfo(use = Id.NAME, defaultImpl …
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High 7.5
jackson-core: UTF8DataInputJsonParser._reportInvalidToken() does not honor maxErrorTokenLength, allowing unbounded StringBuilder growth
UTF8DataInputJsonParser._reportInvalidToken() in FasterXML jackson-core builds the offending-token text for its error message by appending Java identifier characters to a StringBuilder in a loop that has no upper bound. Unlike the three sibling parser impleme…
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Medium 6.5
plone.app.dexterity and plone.app.contenttypes have a Denial of Service due to excessive title or description length
plone.app.dexterity is a content-type system for the Plone content management system, and plone.app.contenttypes provides Plone’s Dexterity-based content types. Plone.app.dexterity versions through 3.2.2, 4.0.0 through 4.1.2, and 5.0.0, and plone.app.contentt…
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Medium 6.5
Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM Concert Software
IBM Concert 1.0.0 through 3.0.0 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service due to improper enforcement of storage limits.
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Medium 6.5
icalendar: Denial of service via unbounded VALARM REPEAT expansion
icalendar is an RFC 5545 compatible parser and generator of iCalendar files for Python. From 6.1.0 until 7.2.2, vInt.from_ical accepts an attacker-controlled VALARM REPEAT value and applications that request alarm times can eagerly expand it without an applic…
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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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Medium 6.5
Netdata: Streaming protocol chart slot guard off-by-one allows ~16 GiB allocation request, crashing parent agent
Netdata is an open source observability tool. Prior to 2.10.4, an authenticated child agent can send an oversized CHART SLOT value that str2ull_encoded passes to pluginsd_rrdset_cache_put_to_slot in src/plugins.d/pluginsd_internals.h. The accepted slot drives…
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High 7.5
Rpcbind: unbounded memory allocation in rpcbind statistics tracking allows unauthenticated remote denial of service
A flaw was found in rpcbind. This vulnerability allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending a large number of unique requests. The rpcbind service records previously unseen RPC (Remote Procedure Call) statistics in …
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Medium 5.5
radare2: Uncontrolled resource consumption in radare2 PEF loader
radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's Apple Preferred Executable Format loader was vulnerable because the PEF loader accepted relocSecCount values that were not bounded by the number of sectio…
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High 7.5
jackson-core: quadratic backtracking in NumberInput.PATTERN_FLOAT via looksLikeValidNumber() enables ReDoS
NumberInput.looksLikeValidNumber() in FasterXML jackson-core pre-validates "stringified numbers" with two regular expressions: PATTERN_FLOAT ([+-]?[0-9]*[\.]?[0-9]+([eE][+-]?[0-9]+)?), present since 2.17.0, and PATTERN_FLOAT_TRAILING_DOT, added in 2.17.2. PAT…
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Medium 6.5
NVIDIA Infrastructure Controller for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker could cause uncontrolled resource…
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Medium 6.5
NVIDIA Infrastructure Controller for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker may cause uncontrolled resource c…
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High 7.5
Quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: quarkus-smallrye-fault-tolerance: memory leak in @applyguard leads to denial of service
A flaw was found in the SmallRye Fault Tolerance library, which is used by Quarkus to provide strategies like retries and circuit breakers for microservices. The issue occurs when using the ApplyGuard or ApplyFaultTolerance annotations, where the library fail…
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Medium 4.3
Apache Neethi: Remote policy fetch lacks a total timeout, allowing a slow server to hang the request indefinitely
When Neethi fetches a remote policy reference, it only limits the time per read, not the whole transfer, so a server that trickles bytes slowly can keep the fetch alive indefinitely and tie up the calling thread (denial of service). Users are recommended to u…
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Medium 5.9
Suricata smb: some SMB flows can cause resource exhaustion
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the SMB parser can retain force-completed transactions on flows where Suricata sees payload in only one direction,…
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High 7.5
Suricata http1: repeated brotli compression bombs can cause excessive CPU consumption
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, the HTTP/1 parser limits decompression work per transaction but does not limit how many small brotli compression bomb…
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High 7.5
Suricata mqtt: unbounded resource consumption from repeated pubrec and pubrel messages
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 7.0.0 until 7.0.17 and 8.0.6, the MQTT parser in rust/src/mqtt/mqtt.rs permits repeated PUBREC or PUBREL messages to be appended to one …
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Medium 6.5
Suricata dhcp: unbounded transactions in unidirectional traffic can lead to resource exhaustion
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. From 8.0.0 until 8.0.6, the DHCP parser in rust/src/dhcp/dhcp.rs creates stateless transactions without recording their packet direction with…
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Medium 5.3
c-ares: Memory-amplification denial of service via unvalidated DNS header record counts
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High 8.8
LMDeploy vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via eval() of untrusted quant_dtype in model config loading
LMDeploy is a toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving large language models. Versions 012.1 through 0.12.2 contain a code injection vulnerability in `lmdeploy/pytorch/config.py` line 620 that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary Python code by publ…
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Low 3.7
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-31 Policy Bypass in UHDR encoder
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-31 contains a policy bypass vulnerability in the UHDR encoder that fails to perform policy checks during buffer allocation for image pixels. Attackers can bypass resource policies by processing specially crafted UHDR images, potential…
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Low 3.3
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-31 Policy Bypass via PCD decoder
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-31 and before 6.9.13-56 contains a policy bypass in the PCD (and, per the upstream advisory, CUBE and HALD) coder: when a specific command line option is supplied, the decoder does not check a configured resource limit, which can resu…
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Medium 5.3
Really Simple Security (Free) < 9.8.3 - Unauthenticated Unbounded Option Growth via Spoofed Client IP Header
The Really Simple Security WordPress plugin before 9.8.3 does not validate a client-supplied address value before using it as a storage key in one of its own options, allowing unauthenticated attackers to grow that option without bound and to slow the site's …
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Medium 5.3
O-RAN-SC SMO OAM VES Collector allocation of resources
A vulnerability was identified in O-RAN-SC SMO OAM 2025-06-10. This affects an unknown part of the component VES Collector. The manipulation leads to allocation of resources. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The exploit is publicly available and…
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Medium 4.3
O-RAN-SC SMO OAM VES Collector allocation of resources
A vulnerability was determined in O-RAN-SC SMO OAM 2025-06-10. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component VES Collector. Executing a manipulation can lead to allocation of resources. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit …
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Medium 4.3
O-RAN-SC SMO OAM VES Collector allocation of resources
A vulnerability was found in O-RAN-SC SMO OAM 2025-06-10. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component VES Collector. Performing a manipulation results in allocation of resources. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploi…
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Medium 4.3
O-RAN-SC SMO OAM VES Collector memory allocation
A vulnerability has been found in O-RAN-SC SMO OAM 2025-06-10. Affected is an unknown function of the component VES Collector. Such manipulation of the argument additionalFields.padding leads to uncontrolled memory allocation. The attack can be launched remot…
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High 7.5
Fulgur: Unbounded page slicing from attacker-controlled CSS height causes denial of service
`fulgur` converts untrusted HTML/CSS into PDF, commonly on a server that processes input supplied by many tenants. In versions prior to 0.19.0, a body-direct child whose CSS-resolved height greatly exceeds the page height was sliced into one fragment per page…
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High 7.5
Fulgur: Unbounded page slicing from attacker-controlled CSS height causes denial of service
`fulgur` converts untrusted HTML/CSS into PDF, commonly on a server that processes input supplied by many tenants. In versions prior to 0.19.0, a body-direct child whose CSS-resolved height greatly exceeds the page height was sliced into one fragment per page…
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High 7.5
MKP: Unbounded Pod Log Read via Attacker-Controlled `limitBytes`/`tailLines` Causes Memory Exhaustion
MKP is a Model Context Protocol server for Kubernetes. Prior to 0.4.1, cmd/server/main.go exposes the default HTTP endpoint and pkg/mcp/server.go registers the unauthenticated get_resource tool, which accepts attacker-controlled limitBytes and tailLines value…
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High 7.5
Pomerium: Pre-Auth Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded zstd Decompression in HPKE Callback
Pomerium is an identity and context-aware access proxy. Prior to 0.32.8, decodeQueryStringV2 in pkg/hpke/url.go performs zstd decompression of attacker-controlled data without an output-memory limit when DecryptURLValues processes HPKE V2 values for Stateless…
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Medium 5.9
AsyncHttpClient: Connection permit leak on TLS handshake failure causes per-host denial of service
The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 3.0.8 until 3.0.12, a client with maxConnections or maxConnectionsPerHost set above zero leaks one connection permit whe…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-85721 Public exploit
AsyncHttpClient: Unbounded HTTP/1.1 response decompression enables a decompression-bomb denial of service
The AsyncHttpClient (AHC) library allows Java applications to easily execute HTTP requests and asynchronously process HTTP responses. From 2.0.0 until 2.16.1 and 3.0.12, automatic response decompression on the HTTP/1.1 path uses ChannelManager.newHttpContentD…
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Medium 5.3
Soup Sieve: Polynomial-time ReDoS (O(n²)) in the whitespace/comment trimming regex `RE_WS_END` (triggers on VALID selectors)
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.9, selector_iter in src/soupsieve/css_parser.py trims the raw selector with RE_WS_END, an end-anchored WSC whitespace-and-comment expression used with search(), so the …
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Medium 5.3
Soup Sieve: Polynomial-time ReDoS (O(n²)) in the `IDENTIFIER` / `VALUE` selector sub-patterns
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High 7.5
libp2p: Unbounded RPC decode + synchronous subscription processing in @libp2p/floodsub allows unauthenticated DoS
libp2p is a JavaScript implementation of the libp2p networking stack. Prior to 11.0.26, @libp2p/floodsub accepts unauthenticated RPC frames on /floodsub/1.0.0 through PeerStreams.attachInboundStream in packages/floodsub/src/peer-streams.ts without protobuf el…
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Medium 4.3
vgmstream mus_acm.c parse_mus resource consumption
A security flaw has been discovered in vgmstream up to r2117. This issue affects the function parse_mus of the file src/meta/mus_acm.c. The manipulation results in resource consumption. The attack may be launched remotely. The patch is identified as ae37662ad…