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 6.9
Uncontrolled resource consumption for some Intel(R) PROSet/Wireless WiFi Software for Windows within Ring 2: Device Dri…
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Medium 4.3
CyberChef’s pretty-recipe parser vulnerable to client-side ReDoS / CPU exhaustion when parsing a malformed #recipe= URL
CyberChef is a web app for encryption, encoding, compression, and data analysis. Prior to 11.3.0, CyberChef's pretty-recipe parser in src/core/Utils.mjs can exhaust client-side CPU when a malformed #recipe= URL fragment containing a large number of unmatched …
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High 7.1
IB/mad: Drop unmatched RMPP responses before reassembly
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/mad: Drop unmatched RMPP responses before reassembly Kernel-handled RMPP receive processing starts reassembly for active DATA responses before the response is matched to an outstanding sen…
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High 7.5
gve: fix Rx queue stall on alloc failure
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gve: fix Rx queue stall on alloc failure When the system is under extreme memory pressure, page allocations can fail during the Rx buffer refill loop. If the number of buffers posted to hardw…
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High 7.5
Apache IoTDB: RPC service denial of service via unchecked Thrift string length
Improper validation of length fields in the Apache IoTDB RPC service may allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service. By sending a crafted malformed Thrift frame, an attacker can cause IoTDB to allocate an excessive amount of memory a…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-18464 Public exploit
WP Maps Pro < 6.1.3 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service
The WP MAPS PRO WordPress plugin before 6.1.3 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions, which is also available to unauthenticated users, and does not restrict the operation it dispatches, allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger un…
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High 7.5
Klever-Go: REST API slow-header connection exhaustion via Gin Engine.Run
Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. Versions from 1.7.14 through 1.7.17 are vulnerable to a remotely triggerable denial of service. Both REST APIs are started with the Gin Engine.Run convenience method, which serves requests …
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High 7.5
Klever-Go: Unbounded goroutine spawn on direct-message ingress enables peer-driven DoS
Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. In versions 1.7.14 through 1.7.17, the direct-message ingress handler spawns a new goroutine for every incoming direct message before the processor-level antiflood layer makes any admission…
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Medium 5.9
Klever-Go KVM: Throttler slot leak in trie account-data sync causes epoch bootstrap / state sync DoS
Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. In versions prior to 1.7.18, the account-data trie syncers are vulnerable to a resource-exhaustion flaw that leaks bounded throttler slots on error paths. In syncDataTrie() (in both userAcc…
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High 7.5
Klever-Go KVM: Hash-array amplification in P2P resolver request handling
Klever-Go is the Go implementation of the Klever blockchain protocol. Prior to 1.7.18, the P2P resolver request handling logic is vulnerable to hash-array amplification. A connected peer can send a compressed RequestDataType_HashArrayType direct request that …
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Medium 5.3
JupyterHub: Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Unbounded Username Logging on Failed Login
JupyterHub is software that allows users to create a multi-user server for Jupyter notebooks. Prior to 5.5.0, invalid input to form-based login authenticators can place an unbounded attacker-controlled username in failed-login logs, allowing an unauthenticate…
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High 7.5
HAPI FHIR: XHTML narrative parser unbounded recursion causes StackOverflow denial of service
HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.11, XhtmlParser.java imposes no maximum element nesting depth, so a deeply nested text.div narrative triggers unbounded recursion between par…
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High 7.5
HAPI FHIR: JSON utility parser unbounded recursion causes StackOverflow denial of service
HAPI FHIR is a complete implementation of the HL7 FHIR standard for healthcare interoperability in Java. Prior to 6.9.11, the JSON utility parser in org.hl7.fhir.utilities.json.parser.JsonParser enforces no maximum nesting depth for arrays or objects. As a re…
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Medium 4.8
pypdf: Possible large memory usage for large /ToUnicode streams
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.15.0, a crafted PDF can cause large memory consumption when pypdf/_cmap.py function parse_bfrange parses unusually large source-code or destination-string tokens in a font /ToUnicode CMap dur…
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Medium 5.3
Unauthenticated denial of service via unbounded request body processing
Consul Community Edition and Consul Enterprise 1.3.0 through 2.0.2 are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service in several agent HTTP API endpoints. A remote caller could cause the agent to consume substantial memory before the request was rejected.…
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High 7.5
gopacket: Multiple layer decoders panic on crafted packets (out-of-bounds/underflow) enabling unauthenticated remote DoS via DecodingLayerParser
gopacket provides packet processing capabilities for Go. Through version 1.7.0, multiple layer decoders use attacker-controlled lengths, counts, or offsets before validating them against packet buffers, allowing a crafted packet decoded through DecodingLayerP…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-16265 Public exploit
WP Maps < 4.9.7 - Subscriber+ Denial of Service
The WP Maps WordPress plugin before 4.9.7 does not perform a capability check in one of its AJAX actions and does not restrict the operation it dispatches, allowing users with a Subscriber account to trigger uncontrolled recursion that exhausts server resourc…
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High 7.5
In sol commit 373d848 (2024-12-12), the broker does not fully release resources when handling malformed or duplicate CO…
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High 7.5
aiosend: Deserialization of request body before signature verification (Pre-auth DoS) in webhook handler
aiosend is a synchronous and asynchronous Crypto Pay API client. Pror to version 3.0.7, `WebhookHandler.feed_update()` deserializes the entire request body before verifying the HMAC signature. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to force expensive parsing…
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High 7.5
Apache CXF: Denial of service via message header attachments
An incomplete fix for CVE-2026-50645 means that it is still possible to perform a denial of service attack on Apache CXF by sending a message with many attachment headers. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 4.2.3 or 4.1.8 or 3.6.12, which fix this i…
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High 7.5
Apache CXF: No default restriction on the amount of form parameters per message
Apache CXF allows to set a limit on the number of form parameters in a JAX-RS message via the "maxFormParameterCount" configuration option. However, no default limit is set which may lead to denial of service attacks when processing requests with very large …
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High 7.5
Nuxt: Unauthenticated out-of-memory crash via unbounded v-for expansion in island rendering
Nuxt is an open-source web development framework for Vue.js. From 3.1.0 until 3.21.10 and 4.5.1, an unauthenticated attacker can use a server island v-for prop, including vforToArray and , to trigger unbounded SSR memory allocation until MAX_VFOR_LENGTH = 100…
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Medium 5.9
rclone: Unbounded HTTP CONNECT Response Headers Can Exhaust rclone Memory
rclone is a command-line program to sync files and directories to and from different cloud storage providers. Prior to 1.75.0, the shared HTTP CONNECT helper in lib/proxy/http.go parses proxy CONNECT responses with http.ReadResponse over an unrestricted buffe…
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Medium 6.5
A potential denial of service vulnerability exists in HPE Integrated Lights-Out 6 (iLO 6) prior to v1.78.
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High 7.5
Apache Answer: Denial of service via crafted Accept-Language header parsing
Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 2.0.1. Unauthenticated attackers can cause a denial of service via a specially crafted Accept-Language header that triggers excessive…
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High 7.5
An issue in open62541 v.1.5.5 and before allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the NodeManagement t…
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High 7.5
An issue in Systerel S2OPC 1.7.3 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the event monitored-item que…
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Medium 6.5
Open WebUI: Instance-wide stall via automation recurrence rules that force multi-second parsing
Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform. From 0.9.0 until 0.11.0, automation recurrence parsing in backend/open_webui/utils/automations.py anchored minutely and hourly rules at a fixed date of 2000-01-01 and then w…
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Medium 6.9
In Eclipse Milo versions 1.0.0 through 1.1.4, monitored-item quota accounting is not exception-safe: if item creation f…
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Medium 6.2CVE-2026-58045 Public exploit
A flaw in Node.js allows a spoofed `TypedArray` `byteLength` to trigger a reachable assertion in the synchronous `node:…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2026-58042 Public exploit
A flaw in Node.js can cause dns.resolveAny() Aborts the Node.js Process When a DNS Response Contains More Than 256 A Re…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-56846 Public exploit
A flaw in Node.js HTTP/2 handling can cause HTTP/2 retained header blocks evade maxSessionMemory and enable remote memo…
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High 7.5
open62541 contains a heap use-after-free in the GDS PushManagement certificate update workflow when UA_ENABLE_GDS_PUSHM…
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High 7.5
open62541 1.5.5 contains a buffer-overflow in the high-level attribute reading logic in src/client/ua_client_highlevel.…
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High 7.5
An issue in open62541 v.1.5.5 and before allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the UA_Client_getRem…
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High 7.5
An issue in open62541 v.1.5.5 and before allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via crafted CreateSubscr…
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High 8.7
python-cryptography: Duplicate self-signed intermediates can cause exponential path-building
python-cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In versions 42.0.0 through 48.0.0, when resolving invalid certificate chains that include duplicate copies of self-signed certificates, the processi…
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High 7.1
AIOHTTP: Out-of-bounds heap read in C HTTP response parser error path (malformed chunked response)
AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. Prior to 3.14.3, an out-of-bounds heap read could occur in the C response parser while building an error message for a malformed response. An attacker controlled server, or possib…
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High 7.5
brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded intermediate arrays, bypassing the CVE-2026-14257 mitigation
The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. Prior to 1.1.18, 2.1.4, 3.0.6, and 5.0.9, expand() does not apply maxLength while constructing comma-alternative intermediate arrays or padded sequences, allowing a…
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High 7.5
An issue in the CFDP receive path of NASA cFS v7.0.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via replaying …