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
4,049 results · Feed
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High 7.5
Klever-Go P2P MultiDataInterceptor leaks global throttler slots on malformed compressed batches (DoS)
## Publisher note **Fixed in `v1.7.17`.** Operators running `< v1.7.17` should upgrade. The decompression-error path in `MultiDataInterceptor.ProcessReceivedMessage` now releases the global throttler slot before returning (guarded `defer` after `StartProcessi…
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Medium 5.3
Strawberry GraphQL's Bypass of MaxAliasesLimiter via Fragment Spreads leading to GraphQL Alias Amplification
Strawberry GraphQL is a library for creating GraphQL APIs. In versions 0.172.0 through0.315.6, the MaxAliasesLimiter extension in Strawberry fails to account for the multiplicative/amplification effect of FragmentSpreadNode. While it correctly counts static a…
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Medium 5.3
Strawberry GraphQL has a Circular Fragment Reference DOS
Strawberry GraphQL is a library for creating GraphQL APIs. In versions 0.71.0 through 0.315.6, the QueryDepthLimiter extension is vulnerable to an Application-level DOS due to a lack of cycle detection in fragment spreads. When a query contains circular fragm…
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High 7.5
SolarWinds Serv-U Unauthenticated Denial of Service Vulnerability
SolarWinds Serv-U is susceptible to specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service without authentication using Content-Encoding: deflate. Mitigation steps are provided to secure customer environments in the SolarWinds Trust Center if you are u…
KEV Jun 5, 2026 -
Medium 4.3
keystonejs keystone GraphQL API Endpoint output-field.ts resource consumption
A vulnerability was detected in keystonejs keystone up to 20260319. This vulnerability affects unknown code in the library packages/core/src/lib/core/queries/output-field.ts of the component GraphQL API Endpoint. The manipulation results in resource consumpti…
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High 7.1
Arbitrary Remote Device Unbinding
Weak validation logic within device dissociation API routines allows a remote entity to forcefully unbind unrelated user endpoints, causing severe denial of service.
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High 8.6
ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ibmveth: Disable GSO for packets with small MSS Some physical adapters on Power systems do not support segmentation offload when the MSS is less than 224 bytes. Attempting to send such packet…
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Low 3.1
dask HLL hyperloglog.py nunique_approx resource consumption
A flaw has been found in dask up to 3.0. Affected by this issue is the function nunique_approx of the file dask/dataframe/hyperloglog.py of the component HLL Handler. This manipulation causes resource consumption. The attack is possible to be carried out remo…
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Medium 6.5
Mercusys AC12G (EU) V1 router with firmware AC12G(EU)_V1_200909 is vulnerable to a HTTP denial of service via a low num…
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Medium 4.3
johnhuang316 code-index-mcp search_code_advanced is_safe_regex_pattern redos
A weakness has been identified in johnhuang316 code-index-mcp up to 2.14.0. Affected is the function is_safe_regex_pattern of the component search_code_advanced. Executing a manipulation of the argument regex can lead to inefficient regular expression complex…
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Medium 4.3
wonderwhy-er DesktopCommanderMCP start_search search-manager.ts redos
A security flaw has been discovered in wonderwhy-er DesktopCommanderMCP up to 0.2.38. This impacts an unknown function of the file src/search-manager.ts of the component start_search. Performing a manipulation of the argument SearchResult[] results in ineffic…
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High 7.5
Dräger Core 1.0.5 Denial of Service via Malformed SDC Message
Dräger Core 1.0.5 and Dräger M540 Converter Service 1.0.9 contain a denial of service vulnerability that allows network-adjacent attackers to trigger high CPU load by sending specially crafted, unencrypted SDC messages during the discovery process. Attackers …
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Medium 5.3
warmcat libwebsockets SSH Protocol sshd.c lws_ssh_parse_plaintext resource consumption
A flaw has been found in warmcat libwebsockets up to 4.5.8. This issue affects the function lws_ssh_parse_plaintext of the file plugins/protocol_lws_ssh_base/sshd.c of the component SSH Protocol Handler. Executing a manipulation of the argument msg_len can le…
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Medium 6.5
Dräger Infinity M300 VG2.x Network-Based Denial of Service
Dräger Infinity M300 patient worn monitors with software version VG2.x and earlier contain a network-based denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers with access to the hospital or Infinity Network to repeatedly trigger device reboots until the dev…
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High 7.5
React Router vulnerable to DoS via unbounded path expansion in __manifest endpoint
React Router is a router for React. In versions 7.0.0 through 7.14.x of react-router and versions 2.10.0 through 2.17.4 of @remix-run/server-runtime, certain crafted requests can consume disproportionate server resources via unbounded path expansion in the __…
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Medium 6.5
Dräger Infinity M300 VG2.3.1 Network-Based Denial of Service
Dräger Infinity M300 patient worn monitors with software version VG2.3.1 and earlier contain a network-based denial of service vulnerability that allows network-adjacent attackers to repeatedly trigger device reboots by sending malicious requests over the Inf…
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Medium 6.5
OpenClaude's MCP OAuth Callback: State Check Bypass via error Param Leads to DoS
OpenClaude is an open-source coding-agent command line interface for cloud and local model providers. Prior to version 0.5.1, the OpenClaude MCP authentication flow starts a temporary local HTTP server to handle OAuth callbacks. To prevent CSRF attacks, the s…
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Medium 5.9
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation: Unbounded BPF internal metrics replay can exhaust CPU
OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation provides eBPF instrumentation based on the OpenTelemetry standard. Prior to version 0.9.0, OBI replays BPF probe hits into histogram observations by looping once per recorded run count. On busy systems, the run-count delta c…
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Medium 5.5
In getPreferredSize of LauncherProcessImageListener.kt, there is a possible denial of service due to resource exhaustio…
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Medium 5.5
In verifySignature of ApkChecksums.java, there is a possible way to cause a crash due to resource exhaustion. This coul…
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Medium 5.5
In multiple functions of ubsan_throwing_runtime.cpp, there is a possible persistent denial of service due to resource e…
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Medium 5.5
In isSameApp of NotificationManagerService.java, there is a possible persistent dos due to resource exhaustion. This co…
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Medium 4.3
Enderfga claw-orchestrator Session Grep Endpoint embedded-server.ts validateRegex redos
A security vulnerability has been detected in Enderfga claw-orchestrator up to 3.7.0. The impacted element is the function validateRegex of the file claw-orchestrator/src/embedded-server.ts of the component Session Grep Endpoint. The manipulation of the argum…
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High 7.5
Apache Fluss Netty Frame Decoder Memory Exhaustion Vulnerability
Apache Fluss versions prior to 0.9.1 configure the Netty LengthFieldBasedFrameDecoder with Integer.MAX_VALUE as the maximum frame length, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust JVM heap memory on TabletServer and CoordinatorServer by sending spe…
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Medium 5.3
NousResearch hermes-agent Webhook Endpoint feishu.py _handle_webhook_request resource consumption
A security vulnerability has been detected in NousResearch hermes-agent up to 2026.4.30. This vulnerability affects the function _handle_webhook_request of the file gateway/platforms/feishu.py of the component Webhook Endpoint. Such manipulation leads to reso…
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Medium 5.7
Email with special content can lead to DoS
An uncontrolled allocation of resources without limits or throttling in the e-mail handling in OTRS allows excessive allocation which may lead to the abortion of the webserver.This issue affects OTRS: * 8.0.X * 2023.X * 2024.X * 2025.X * 2026.X before 2026.4.…
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Medium 6.5CVE-2026-48208 Public exploit
Denial-of-Service via SVG Rendering in Ticket
An improper neutralization of active SVG content in OTRS or ((OTRS)) Community Edition ticket article rendering allows attackers to inject specially crafted SVG payloads via email content, leading to browser-side resource exhaustion and denial of service when…
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High 8.2
FlexRIC v2.0.0 allows a single SCTP connection to bind multiple xapp_ids by sending multiple E42_SETUP_REQUESTs. On dis…
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Medium 4.3
Open5GS nf-instances Endpoint nnrf-handler.c handle_amf_info resource consumption
A vulnerability was determined in Open5GS up to 2.7.7. This affects the function handle_amf_info in the library /lib/sbi/nnrf-handler.c of the component nf-instances Endpoint. Executing a manipulation of the argument nf_info_pool can lead to resource consumpt…
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High 8.7
iskorotkov/avro: CPU Exhaustion in Avro Decoder
iskorotkov/avro is a fast Go Avro codec. Prior to 2.33.0, the Avro array and map decoders looped over an attacker-controlled block-count value without checking the underlying reader's error state inside the loop body. Reader.ReadBlockHeader returns the count …
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Medium 6.5
brace-expansion: Large numeric range defeats documented `max` DoS protection
The brace-expansion library generates arbitrary strings containing a common prefix and suffix. From 5.0.0 to before 5.0.6, the max option was being applied too late. When expanding a single large numeric range like {1..10000000}, the sequence generation loop …
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Medium 6.5
go-git: Malformed Git object data may cause panics or resource exhaustion
### Impact Several denial-of-service issues were identified in `go-git` when parsing maliciously crafted Git repository data. An attacker may craft a malicious `.pack`, `.idx` or loose objects that causes an application using an affected version of `go-git` t…
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High 7.5
Shibby Tomato miniupnpd resource consumption
A vulnerability has been found in Shibby Tomato 1.28. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file usr/sbin/miniupnpd. Such manipulation leads to resource consumption. The attack may be launched remotely. This project is superseded by FreshTomato. …
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Medium 4.6
Indian Scout Bobber 2025 WCM brute-force
Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Wireless Control Module (WCM) of the Indian Motorcycle Scout Bobber + Tech 2025 model year allows an adjacent-network attacker with write access to the in-vehicle network to permanently immobilize the motorcycle. The W…
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Medium 5.3
Vulnerability in Oracle REST Data Services (component: Core). Supported versions that are affected are 24.2.0-26.1.0. E…
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High 7.5
Vulnerability in the Net Service component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 23.4.0-2…
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High 7.5
Vulnerability in the Net Service component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 23.4.0-2…
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High 7.5
Vulnerability in Oracle REST Data Services (component: Mongoapi). Supported versions that are affected are 24.2.0-26.1.…
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Medium 6.5
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user with viewer-level access can submit a request containing an oversized input value to an analytics collections manag…
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Medium 6.5
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated low-privileged user can cause Kibana to consume exponentially increasing amounts of memory by submitting a specially cra…