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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None 0.0
Cisco Crosswork Network Controller and Cisco Network Services Orchestrator Advisory
Following the initial publication of the Security Advisory about a denial of service (DoS) condition in Cisco Crosswork Network Controller and Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), additional information has been made available to the Cisco Product Secur…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-34473 Public exploit
Unauthenticated DoS in ZTE H8102E, H168N, H167A, H199A, H288A, H198A, H267A, H267N, H268A, H388X, H196A, H369A, H268N, …
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Medium 6.2
@evomap/evolver has an unbounded request body in proxy /asset/submit that causes persistent disk-exhaustion DoS
## Summary The EvoMap proxy daemon's HTTP body parser accepts requests of any size, and the `POST /asset/submit` route persists the full request body — verbatim and uncapped — as a JSONL line in `<dataDir>/messages.jsonl`. An unauthenticated local attacker (o…
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High 8.7
CoreDNS DoH GET path missing size validation causes CPU and memory amplification
CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins. In versions prior to 1.14.3, the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) GET path accepts oversized dns= query parameter values and performs URL query parsing, base64 decoding, and DNS message unpacking before rejecting the request. …
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High 7.5
OpenClaw 2026.4.9 < 2026.4.10 - Denial of Service via Oversized WebSocket Frames in Voice-call Realtime Path
OpenClaw versions 2026.4.9 before 2026.4.10 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the voice-call realtime WebSocket path that accepts oversized frames without proper validation. Remote attackers can send oversized WebSocket frames to cause service unav…
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High 7.3
Apache Thrift: Node.js web_server.js multi-vulnerability
Origin Validation Error, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'), Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting'), Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Apache T…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-42154 Public exploit
Prometheus: remote read endpoint allows denial of service via crafted snappy payload
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time series database. Prior to versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3, the remote read endpoint (/api/v1/read) does not validate the declared decoded length in a snappy-compressed request body before allocating memory. An…
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High 7.5
An issue in Assimp v.6.0.2 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the FBXConverter.cpp and ConvertMe…
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Medium 5.9
An issue in Assimp v.6.0.2 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the FBXParser.cpp, ParseVectorData…
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High 7.5
An integer underflow in FRRouting (FRR) stable/10.0 to stable/10.6 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) …
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High 7.5
Apache Neethi: Policy Normalization Unbounded Resource Allocation DoS
Apache Neethi is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack through algorithmic complexity in policy normalization. Specially crafted WS-Policy documents can trigger an exponential Cartesian cross-product expansion during the normalization process, causing unbo…
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High 7.5
Apache Neethi: Circular Policy Reference Infinite Loop
Apache Neethi does not properly detect circular references in policy definitions. When a WS-Policy document contains circular policy references (where Policy A references Policy B which references Policy A), the policy normalization process can enter an infin…
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High 7.5
An issue was discovered in Open-SAE-J1939 thru commit b6caf884df46435e539b1ecbf92b6c29b345bdfe (2025-11-30) in SAE_J193…
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Medium 6.8
Memory corruption in Secure Access Windows clients prior to 14.50
CVE-2026-40951 is a memory corruption vulnerability on Secure Access Windows clients prior to 14.50. Attackers with local control of the Windows client can send malformed data to an API and trigger a denial of service.
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High 7.5
An issue in open5gs v.2.7.3 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted PDU Session Modificatio…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-36958 Public exploit
A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the U-SPEED N300 V1.0.0 wireless router. By sending a large number of concu…
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High 7.5CVE-2026-36957 Public exploit
Dbit N300 T1 Pro Easy Setup Wireless Wi-Fi Router V1.0.0 is vulnerable to Denial of Service via the boa web server URI …
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Medium 6.5
Wazuh: Pre-auth stack-based buffer overflow in wazuh-remoted print_hex_string() due to signed char promotion on x86_64
Wazuh is a free and open source platform used for threat prevention, detection, and response. From version 4.8.0 to before version 4.14.4, a stack-based buffer overflow exists in print_hex_string() in wazuh-remoted. The bug is triggered when formatting attack…
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Medium 5.3
CVE-2026-22745 : Denial of service in static resource handling on Windows platforms
Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks when resolving static resources. More precisely, an application can be vulnerable when all the following are true: * the application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux * the ap…
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Medium 6.5
Spring Framework DoS with Multipart Temp Files in WebFlux
A WebFlux server application that processes multipart requests creates temp files for parts larger than 10 K. Under some circumstances, temp files may remain not deleted after the request is fully processed. This allows an attacker to consume available disk s…
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Low 3.7
OpenClaw < 2026.4.4 - Rate-Limit Bypass via Concurrent Async Authentication Attempts
OpenClaw before 2026.4.4 contains a race condition vulnerability in shared-secret authentication that allows concurrent asynchronous requests to bypass the per-key rate-limit budget. Attackers can exploit this by sending multiple simultaneous authentication a…
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High 7.5
OpenClaw < 2026.3.31 - Resource Exhaustion via Unauthenticated MS Teams Webhook Body Parsing
OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 parses MS Teams webhook request bodies before performing JWT validation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger resource exhaustion. Remote attackers can send malicious Teams webhook payloads to exhaust server resources by byp…
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Medium 5.3
OpenClaw < 2026.3.31 - Resource Consumption via Oversized WebSocket Frames in voice-call
OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-32062 where the voice-call component parses large WebSocket frames before start validation. Remote attackers can send oversized pre-start WebSocket frames to cause resource consumption and deni…
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High 7.5
OpenClaw < 2026.3.28 - Denial of Service via Unbounded Pre-auth WebSocket Upgrades
OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 accepts unbounded concurrent unauthenticated WebSocket upgrades without pre-authentication budget allocation. Unauthenticated network attackers can exhaust socket and worker capacity to disrupt WebSocket availability for legitimate c…
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Medium 6.5
Spring AI Vulnerable to OOM by attacker-controlled PDF
In Spring AI, a malicious PDF file can be crafted that triggers the allocation of unreasonable amounts of memory when handled by `ForkPDFLayoutTextStripper`. Affected versions: Spring AI: 1.0.0 - 1.0.5 (fixed in 1.0.6), 1.1.0 - 1.1.4 (fixed in 1.1.5)
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Medium 4.4
A handling issue in the RTSP service of the Mercury MIPC252W 1.0.5 Build 230306 Rel.79931n allows an authenticated atta…
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High 7.5
An issue in the /store/items/search endpoint of Agent Protocol server commit e9a89f allows attackers to cause a Denial …
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High 8.7
Marked: OOM Denial of Service via Infinite Recursion in marked Tokenizer
Marked is a markdown parser and compiler. From 18.0.0 to 18.0.1, a critical Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in marked. By providing a specific 3-byte input sequence a tab, a vertical tab, and a newline (\x09\x0b\n)—an unauthenticated attacker can…
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High 7.5
Tempo query limit results in unbounded memory allocation
Tempo queries with large limits can cause large memory allocations which can impact the availability of the service, depending on its deployment strategy. Mitigation can be done by setting max_result_limit in the search config, e.g. to 262144 (2^18). Alternat…
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High 7.5
basic-ftp vulnerable to denial of service via unbounded memory consumption in Client.list()
basic-ftp is an FTP client for Node.js. Versions prior to 5.3.0 are vulnerable to denial of service through unbounded memory growth while processing directory listings from a remote FTP server. A malicious or compromised server can send an extremely large or …
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High 8.2
Open Source Social Network (OSSN) Vulnerable to Resource Exhaustion via Malicious Image Processing
Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is open-source social networking software developed in PHP. Versions prior to 9.0 are vulnerable to resource exhaustion. An attacker can upload a specially crafted image with extreme pixel dimensions (e.g., $10000 \times 1000…
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Medium 5.3
An issue in Hostbill v.2025-11-24 and 2025-12-01 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the Checkout…
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Low 3.8
An issue in Hostbill v.2025-11-24 and 2025-12-01 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the Client B…
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Medium 5.9
OpenTelemetry dotnet: Potential memory exhaustion via unbounded pooled-list sizing in Jaeger exporter conversion path
OpenTelemetry dotnet is a dotnet telemetry framework. In 1.6.0-rc.1 and earlier, OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Jaeger may allow sustained memory pressure when the internal pooled-list sizing grows based on a large observed span/tag set and that enlarged size is reus…
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Medium 6.6
uutils coreutils mv Denial of Service and Data Duplication via Improper Symlink Expansion
The mv utility in uutils coreutils improperly handles directory trees containing symbolic links during moves across filesystem boundaries. Instead of preserving symlinks, the implementation expands them, copying the linked targets as real files or directories…
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Medium 4.4
uutils coreutils cp Semantic Loss and Potential Denial of Service with -R via Device Node Stream Reading
The cp utility in uutils coreutils, when performing recursive copies (-R), incorrectly treats character and block device nodes as stream sources rather than preserving them. Because the implementation reads bytes into regular files at the destination instead …
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Medium 5.9
Possible file descriptor exhaustion in forward-dnsupdate
A rogue primary server may cause file descriptor exhaustion and eventually a denial of service, when a PowerDNS secondary server forwards a DNS update request to it.
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Medium 5.5
Binutils: binutils: denial of service vulnerabilities in readelf via crafted elf files
A flaw was found in the `readelf` utility of the binutils package. A local attacker could exploit two Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerabilities by providing a specially crafted Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file. One vulnerability, a resource exhaustion …
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High 7.5
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX
In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to 2026.1.421, RadAsyncUpload contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows file uploads to exceed the configured maximum size due to missing cumulative size enforcement during chunk reassembly…
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Low 2.7
Tanium addressed an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Interact.
Tanium addressed an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability in Interact.