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 5.3
Quicly is vulnerable to memory exhaustion
Quicly is an IETF QUIC protocol implementation intended primarily for use within the H2O HTTP server. Prior to commit 8b178e6, an adversarial peer could send a STREAM frame carrying just one byte at the largest offset being permitted to obtain additional flow…
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High 8.1
Docling Core has insufficient validation of image reference URIs
Docling Core defines core data types and transformations for the document processing application Docling. In versions 2.5.0 and above, prior to 2.74.1, docling-core could allow local file:// image references and accepted inline data: content without a decoded…
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Medium 6.3
Buffa: Memory Exhaustion Denial of Service in decode_unknown_field via Unbounded Allocation
Buffa is a pure-Rust Protocol Buffers implementation with first-class protobuf editions support. Prior to 0.8.0, the decode_unknown_field function in buffa's protobuf decoder allocated heap memory in proportion to untrusted input (unknown fields in the serial…
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Medium 6.5
Microsoft UFO: COMMAND_RESULTS handler creates unowned sessions, allowing authenticated session-squatting denial of service
Microsoft UFO open-source framework for intelligent automation across devices and platforms. Prior to 3.0.7, the COMMAND_RESULTS handler in ufo/server/ws/handler.py called get_or_create_session in ufo/server/services/session_manager.py without owner_client_id…
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Medium 6.5
adawolfa/isdoc: Uncontrolled resource consumption (decompression bomb) when reading untrusted ISDOCX or PDF files
### Impact `adawolfa/isdoc` reads ISDOC invoices from ISDOCX (ZIP) archives and from PDF files with embedded ISDOC documents and supplements. Affected versions inflate ZIP entries and read embedded files **without validating their uncompressed size**, so a sm…
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High 7.1
Wekan: Arbitrary file read and server DoS via attachment versions.original.path
Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.31, Wekan allows a logged-in board member to insert an attachment document through the /attachments/insert DDP method with attacker-controlled versions.original.path and versions.original.storage field…
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Medium 5.1
Resource exhaustion vulnerability in the Secure Access publisher
CVE-2026-55399 is a resource exhaustion vulnerability in the Secure Access publisher prior to 14.55. Attackers with valid credentials to the Secure Access tunnel can create a non-persistent DoS against the publisher.
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Medium 6.9
Memory management vulnerability in Secure Access clients
CVE-2026-55398 is a memory management vulnerability in Secure Access clients and servers prior to 14.55. Attackers with intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a non-persistent DoS against the server.
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High 8.7
Memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers
CVE-2026-33445 is a memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers prior to 14.55. Attackers with an intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a persistent DoS against the server.
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Medium 6.9
Memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers
CVE-2026-33444 is a memory management vulnerability in Secure Access servers prior to 14.55. Attackers with intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a non-persistent DoS against the server.
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High 7.1
Memory management error in Secure Access servers prior to 14.55
CVE-2026-33443 is a memory management error in Secure Access servers prior to 14.55. Attackers with an intimate knowledge of and total control over the tunnel protocol can create a persistent DoS against the server.
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High 7.5CVE-2026-36590 Public exploit
An issue in EMQ NanoMQ v.0.24.9 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the nni_qos_db_set function i…
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Medium 6.2
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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High 7.1
Twig: Sandbox resource exhaustion via unbounded `for` / `range()`
Twig is a template language for PHP. Prior to 3.26.0, the Twig sandbox does not prevent a template from consuming CPU, memory, or wall-clock time, even under the strictest allow-list, allowing untrusted templates to cause resource exhaustion. This issue is ad…
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Medium 5.3
UAParser.js: Unbounded `Sec-CH-UA-Model` parsing can trigger ReDoS in `withClientHints()`
UAParser.js is a JavaScript library to detect browsers, operating systems, CPUs, and devices from user-agent data. From 2.0.1 until 2.0.10, a regular expression denial-of-service vulnerability exists when using the Client Hints API. By sending a crafted Sec-C…
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High 7.5
Soup Sieve: Memory Exhaustion via Large Comma-Separated Selector Lists in soupsieve
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.8.4, the CSS selector parser in soupsieve allocates unbounded memory when compiling large comma-separated selector lists, allowing an attacker who can supply a crafted …
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High 7.5
Soup Sieve: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in soupsieve Selector Parser
Soup Sieve is a CSS selector library designed to be used with Beautiful Soup 4. Prior to 2.8.4, the CSS selector parser in soupsieve contains a regular expression vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking when processing an attribute selector with an unterminat…
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High 7.5
Puma PROXY Protocol v1 Parser Allows Remote Memory Exhaustion
Puma is a Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism. From 5.5.0 until 7.2.1 and 8.0.2, when PROXY protocol v1 support is enabled, Puma reads incoming bytes into an internal buffer while waiting for CRLF to determine whether a PROXY v1 line is present, allowi…
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High 7.5
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker can cause uncontrolled resource con…
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High 7.5
NVIDIA Triton Inference Server for Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker can cause uncontrolled resource con…
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High 7.5
@grpc/grps-js: An incoming malformed compressed message can cause a client or server crash
@grpc/grps-js implements the core functionality of gRPC purely in JavaScript, without a C++ addon. Prior to 1.9.16, 1.10.12, 1.11.4, 1.12.7, 1.13.5, and 1.14.4, an invalid incoming compressed message can cause a client or server process that uses @grpc/grpc-j…
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Medium 5.3
joi: Uncaught RangeError on deeply nested input through recursive `link()` schemas
joi is a schema description language and data validator for JavaScript. Prior to 17.13.4 and 18.2.1, denial of service is possible via an untrapped exception in services validating user-supplied JSON or object input with recursive link() schemas. When validat…
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High 8.2
Symfony: JsonPath Evaluates Attacker-Controlled Regular Expressions in match()/search() Without Limits — ReDoS
Symfony is a PHP framework for web and console applications and a set of reusable PHP components. From 7.3.0-BETA1 until 7.4.12 and 8.0.12, the JsonPath component compiles attacker-controlled match() and search() filter patterns directly into preg_match() wit…
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High 7.5
Windows DHCP Server Denial of Service Vulnerability
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Windows DHCP Server allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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Medium 6.5
Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Uncontrolled resource consumption in Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) allows an authorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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High 7.5
Azure Active Directory Denial of Service Vulnerability
Loop with unreachable exit condition ('infinite loop') in Azure Active Directory allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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High 7.5
pyasn1 BER/CER/DER decoder denial of service via unbounded long-form tag IDs
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.4, the BER decoder shared by the CER and DER codecs parses long-form tags by accumulating continuation octets without an upper bound on the tag ID size, allowing a crafted input to force construction …
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High 7.5
pyasn1: Quadratic complexity in OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID processing allows denial of service
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.4, the BER, CER, and DER decoders process OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID values in quadratic time relative to the number of arcs, so a small crafted payload containing an OID with many arcs consum…
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High 7.5
pyasn1: Uncontrolled resource consumption when converting decoded REAL values
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.4, the univ.Real type converted its mantissa, base, and exponent value to a Python float using exact big-integer exponentiation. A BER, CER, or DER encoded REAL value only a few bytes long can carry a…
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High 7.5
Pillow: Decompression Bomb DoS via PdfParser.PdfStream.decode()
Pillow is a Python imaging library. From 5.1.0 until 12.3.0, PdfParser.PdfStream.decode() in PIL/PdfParser.py calls zlib.decompress() with bufsize set to the PDF stream Length field without bounding the decompressed output size, allowing a crafted FlateDecode…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-12523 Public exploit
Resource exhaustion in quiche HTTP/3 and QPACK layers
Summary Cloudflare quiche's HTTP/3 layer was discovered to be vulnerable to resource exhaustion (i.e., memory) by means of specially crafted HTTP/3 frames. Impact HTTP/3 defines multiple frame types to support HTTP message exchanges and connection management.…
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High 7.5
Eclipse Jetty: DoS attack triggering OutOfMemory with 100-Continue requests
For requests that have a body, but reading the body may end up in reading 0 bytes, there is a buffer leak. This is particularly the case for 100-Continue, but any request where the network is slow can leak.
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High 8.3
HedgeDoc: Denial-of-service via YAML alias expansion in note frontmatter
HedgeDoc is an open source, real-time, collaborative, markdown notes application. Prior to version 1.11.0, HedgeDoc was vulnerable to a YAML alias bomb due to unsafe processing of the note frontmatter. HedgeDoc parsed frontmatter with js-yaml.load (js-yaml v3…
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High 7.5
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the receive loop of libmodbus 3.1.12 when running on Windows. The iss…
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Low 2.4
Host-triggerable control-endpoint wedge (DoS) in Nuvoton NuMaker HSUSBD UDC driver
The Nuvoton NuMaker HSUSBD USB device-controller driver (drivers/usb/udc/udc_numaker.c) armed the control Data IN stage unconditionally (base->CEPTXCNT = len in numaker_hsusbd_ep_trigger). Because the HSUSBD hardware cannot disarm a control Data IN already ar…
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Low 3.7
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 Heap Use-After-Free via XMP
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability caused by missing null check when parsing XMP profiles. Attackers can craft malicious image files with specially crafted XMP data to trigger the vulnerability and cause application crash…
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Low 3.3
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 Memory Allocation Policy Bypass
ImageMagick before 7.1.2-26 and 6.9.13-51 is missing a check for the allowed memory allocation limit in matrix-backed operations such as -canny. An attacker can supply a crafted image that causes ImageMagick to allocate more memory than permitted by the confi…
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Medium 5.5
CredSweeper: Recursive archive size-limit bypass in deep scanner allows crafted compressed inputs to exhaust resources
### Summary CredSweeper's deep scanner does not enforce `recursive_limit_size` as a hard limit. Several recursive scanners fully decompress or fully read attacker-controlled content before the remaining budget is validated, and `AbstractScanner.recursive_scan…
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Low 2.4CVE-2026-55781 Public exploit
NanaZip: Unbounded memory allocation (DoS) in NanaZip UFS parser via unvalidated fs_bsize/fs_fsize superblock fields
NanaZip is the 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience. Prior to 6.5.1749.0, NanaZip's UFS and FFS image handler in NanaZip.Codecs.Archive.Ufs.cpp validates the superblock block size only against the MINBSIZE lower bound and does not valid…
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Low 2.4CVE-2026-55780 Public exploit
NanaZip: Uncaught exception / unbounded allocation in NanaZip .NET single-file Extract() via unvalidated entry Size
NanaZip is the 7-Zip derivative intended for the modern Windows experience. Prior to 6.5.1749.0, NanaZip's .NET single-file bundle handler in NanaZip.Codecs.Archive.DotNetSingleFile.cpp sizes its extraction buffer from the bundle entry Size field, which is on…