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
4,047 results · Feed
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Medium 4.3
RightNow-AI OpenFang tool_runner.rs shell_exec memory allocation
A weakness has been identified in RightNow-AI OpenFang up to 0.6.9. This vulnerability affects the function shell_exec of the file crates/openfang-runtime/src/tool_runner.rs. This manipulation causes uncontrolled memory allocation. The attack is possible to b…
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Medium 5.3
simular-ai Agent-S OCR HTTP API ocr_server.py ImageData resource consumption
A vulnerability was determined in simular-ai Agent-S up to 0.3.2. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ImageData of the file gui_agents/s1/utils/ocr_server.py of the component OCR HTTP API. Executing a manipulation of the argument img_bytes can lead…
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Medium 5.3
sigoden aichat API Endpoint serve.rs memory allocation
A flaw has been found in sigoden aichat up to 0.30.4. This affects an unknown function of the file src/serve.rs of the component API Endpoint. This manipulation causes uncontrolled memory allocation. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been …
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High 7.1
Boruta: Authenticated atom-exhaustion DoS in BorutaIdentityWeb.UserSettingsController.update/2
Boruta is a standalone authorization server that aims to implement OAuth 2.0 and Openid Connect up to decentralized identity specifications. Prior to version 0.10.0, BorutaIdentityWeb.UserSettingsController.update/2 atomizes every key of the user-supplied req…
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Medium 4.3
ntegrals openbrowser Browser Agent Message Construction agent.ts resource consumption
A vulnerability was found in ntegrals openbrowser up to 067fc45d649baa961750da8e2f4a75d87c5c75c8. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file packages/core/src/agent/agent.ts of the component Browser Agent Message Construction. Perf…
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Medium 6.5
SQL Data Source Plugin: OOM DoS via $__timeGroup macro
An authenticated user with permission to query a SQL data source can bypass the fix for CVE-2026-33375 by injecting the timeGroup macro through a WHERE clause, which Grafana's regex-based macro parsing does not reject. Evaluating the injected macro causes unc…
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Medium 4.3
NousResearch hermes-agent MCP Tool mcp_tool.py list_tools memory allocation
A vulnerability was found in NousResearch hermes-agent up to 0.18.2. This vulnerability affects the function list_tools of the file tools/mcp_tool.py of the component MCP Tool. Performing a manipulation results in uncontrolled memory allocation. It is possibl…
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High 7.5
js-yaml: maxTotalMergeKeys does not limit CPU use for empty merge sources
js-yaml is a JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. From 3.0.0 until 3.15.2, 4.3.2, and 5.4.1, maxTotalMergeKeys in lib/js-yaml/loader.js and lib/loader.js does not count empty mapping sources while processing the merge key <<. An attacker can alias a large seque…
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High 7.5
Unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability in AOS-CX
An unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the API endpoint of AOS-CX. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability results in the ability to interrupt the normal operation of the affected service.
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Medium 6.5
Unauthenticated Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX
Vulnerabilities in AOS-CX could allow an unauthenticated remote malicious actor to trigger a denial-of-service condition by sending specially crafted packets. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities results in disruption of normal operation on affect…
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Medium 5.3
Authenticated Denial-of-Service Vulnerabilities in the Command Line Interface of AOS-CX
Denial-of-service vulnerabilities exist in the command line interface of AOS-CX. Successful exploitation could allow an authenticated user to disrupt the normal operation of a vulnerable system.
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Medium 5.3
Hono: Unbounded dot-notation nesting in `parseBody()` can cause memory exhaustion
Hono is a Web application framework that provides support for any JavaScript runtime. Prior to 4.13.5, when parseBody() expands dot-separated form field names into nested objects with dot-notation parsing enabled, it does not limit the nesting depth or the to…
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Low 3.1
Authenticated Denial of Service Vulnerability in HPE Networking Fabric Composer API
A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer that could allow an authenticated low privilege operator user to cause a denial of service. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to interrupt the normal operation…
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Low 3.5
Authenticated Denial of Service Vulnerability in HPE Networking Fabric Composer Web-Based Management Interface
A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of HPE Networking Fabric Composer that could allow an authenticated low privilege operator user to cause a denial of service. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to dis…
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Medium 6.5
Authenticated Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in HPE Networking Fabric Composer API
Denial-of-service vulnerabilities exist in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer that could allow an authenticated low privilege operator user to cause a denial of service. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to interrupt the normal operation …
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High 7.5
Unauthenticated Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer
A vulnerability in the API of HPE Networking Fabric Composer could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to conduct a denial of service attack. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to disrupt the availability of the affected interface.
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High 8.7
gRPC-Go: Heap Memory Exhaustion (OOM) via HTTP/2 DATA Frame Fragmentation
gRPC-Go is the Go language implementation of gRPC. Prior to 1.83.1, internal/transport/transport.go stores each fragmented HTTP/2 DATA frame as a separate recvMsg in recvBuffer, so millions of one-byte frames can consume disproportionate heap memory even when…
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High 8.7
xmldom: End-tag Whitespace-Trim Regex ReDoS — quadratic backtracking in the 0.8.x end-tag parser
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.7.0 until 0.8.15, the release-0.8.x parser in lib/sax.js trims captured end-tag names with the unanchored global expression /[ \t\n\r]+$/g. For an…
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High 8.7
xmldom: Quadratic-time parsing via the malformed-input recovery path — `parseElementStartPart` re-scan and `normalize()` adjacent-text merge
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom versions 0.3.0 through 0.6.0, two independent quadratic paths can cause denial of servi…
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High 8.7
xmldom: HTML raw-text closing-tag case mismatch causes output amplification
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0-beta.1 until 0.9.12, HTML-mode parsing through DOMParser.parseFromString() mishandles a mixed-case closing tag for the script, style, textarea…
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High 8.7
xmldom PI grammar regex ReDoS: quadratic backtracking on unterminated processing instructions
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0-beta.9 until 0.9.11, the processing-instruction production in lib/grammar.js lets the greedy S+ separator and lazy Char*? data group repeatedl…
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High 8.7
Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT Denial of Service Vulnerability
A denial-of-service security issue exists in the affected product. The security issue stems from a crafted CIP packet being sent crashing the module. The device requires a restart to recover.
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High 7.5
Denial-of-service in the PDF Viewer component
Denial-of-service in the PDF Viewer component. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 155 and Thunderbird 155.
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Low 2.1
Ash.Actions.Read.AsyncLimiter busy-spins a scheduler while awaiting slow async reads
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash lets a slow asynchronous read spin a scheduler thread at full CPU while the framework waits for it. Ash.Actions.Read.AsyncLimiter.await_at_least_one/1 (lib/ash/actions/read/async_limiter.ex) w…
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Medium 5.9
Ash.Filter.Runtime materializes a combinatorial cross-product over to-many relationships, exhausting memory
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash lets an attacker exhaust node memory by matching a filter that spans multiple to-many relationships in memory. Ash.Filter.Runtime matches a filter against an in-memory record by first expandin…
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Medium 5.9
Match regex runs on over-length input in Ash.Type.String, enabling regex denial of service
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in ash-project ash allows an attacker to force an expensive regular expression to run on input that a length constraint should have already rejected. Ash.Type.String.apply_constraints/2 (lib/ash/type/string.ex) …
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High 7.5
An issue in kamailio v.6.1.1 and before allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the IMS P-CSCF regist…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-51788 Public exploit
An issue in cleverange_auth v.0.1.10 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the account_verification…
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High 7.5
Tornado: Urlencoded body parsing omits max_num_fields, so one request can stall the event loop
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library. Prior to 6.5.8, Tornado parses application/x-www-form-urlencoded request bodies with urllib.parse.parse_qs in tornado/escape.py without passing max_num_fields. RequestHandler._execute in t…
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High 7.5
multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via oversized array index in field names
multer is a middleware for handling multipart/form-data in Node.js. A small multipart request with two specially crafted text field names can make multer's field parser synchronously iterate a maximum-length sparse array, blocking the event loop so the proces…
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High 7.5
multer vulnerable to Denial of Service via file descriptor leak on aborted uploads
multer is a middleware for handling multipart/form-data in Node.js. In version 2.2.0, when a disk-backed upload is aborted or truncated before the write stream finishes, multer's disk storage engine removes the visible file but does not close the underlying w…
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Critical 9.1
plone.app.event: Denial of service via iCalendar import
plone.app.event provides the event content type for Plone. Prior to versions 5.2.4 and 6.0.1, the iCalendar import in src/plone/app/event/ical/importer.py accepts insufficiently restricted calendar and event URLs, does not adequately bound downloaded bytes or…
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High 7.1
Protego: Exponential backtracking ReDoS in robots.txt URL wildcard matching
Protego is a pure-Python robots.txt parser with support for modern conventions. Prior to 0.6.2, protego._urlpattern._URLPattern._prepare_pattern_for_regex translates every asterisk in an Allow or Disallow directive into a lazy regular-expression wildcard, so …
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Critical 9.1
plone.app.portlets: Denial of service via RSS feed portlet
plone.app.portlets provides portlets and a Plone-specific user interface for plone.portlets. Prior to 5.0.8, 6.0.4, and 7.0.2, a member who can add an RSS portlet can set its feed URL to a very large response, causing src/plone/app/portlets/portlets/rss.py to…
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High 8.5
KubeVela Terraform remote loader DoS via unbounded file read
KubeVela is an open source application delivery platform. Prior to 1.9.14, from 1.10.0-alpha.1 until 1.10.9, and from 1.11.0-alpha.1 until 1.11.0-alpha.4, the Terraform remote configuration loader in pkg/controller/utils/capability.go, GetTerraformConfigurati…
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High 7.5
SvelteKit before 2.52.2 CPU Exhaustion via Remote Form Deserialization
SvelteKit (@sveltejs/kit) versions >=2.49.0 and <=2.52.1 with experimental remote functions and form enabled contain a CPU exhaustion vulnerability in form deserialization. An attacker can send malformed form data to cause the server to become unresponsive wh…
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High 7.5
SvelteKit before 2.52.2 Memory Exhaustion via Remote Form Deserialization
SvelteKit (@sveltejs/kit) versions >=2.49.0 and <=2.52.1 with experimental remote functions (experimental.remoteFunctions) and form enabled contain a memory exhaustion vulnerability in remote form deserialization. Malformed form data can cause excessive memor…
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Medium 5.3
SvelteKit before 2.69.1 Denial of Service via Remote Form
SvelteKit before 2.69.1 fails to properly validate remote form function payload sizes, allowing attackers to crash the Node process by sending large payloads. Repeated exploitation causes denial of service by repeatedly crashing the application process.
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Medium 5.9
filebrowser through 2.63.23 Denial of Service via named pipes
filebrowser through 2.63.23 fails to validate named pipes in directory archive and public download handlers, allowing attackers to trigger blocking open syscalls. Authenticated users or anonymous visitors with public share links can repeatedly request archive…
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Medium 6.5
An attacker that has valid credentials can select a compression algorithm for the IMAP connection whose decompression s…