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 6.2
Azure Site Recovery Denial of Service Vulnerability
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High 7.5
Windows Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Windows Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) Denial of Service Vulnerability
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High 7.5
Windows Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) Denial of Service Vulnerability
Windows Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Medium 4.3
Denial-of-Service (DoS) Vulnerability
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High 7.5
Undertow vulnerable to Dos via Large AJP request
When a POST request comes through AJP and the request exceeds the max-post-size limit (maxEntitySize), Undertow's AjpServerRequestConduit implementation closes a connection without sending any response to the client/proxy. This behavior results in that a fron…
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Medium 6.5
NGINX Instance Manager vulnerability CVE-2022-35241
In versions 2.x before 2.3.1 and all versions of 1.x, when NGINX Instance Manager is in use, undisclosed requests can cause an increase in disk resource utilization. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
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High 7.5
HTTP2 profile vulnerability CVE-2022-35236
In BIG-IP Versions 16.1.x before 16.1.2.2, 15.1.x before 15.1.6.1, and 14.1.x before 14.1.5, when an HTTP2 profile is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed traffic can cause an increase in memory resource utilization. Note: Software versions which have …
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High 7.5
BIG-IP APM and F5 SSL Orchestrator vulnerability CVE-2022-33203
In BIG-IP Versions 16.1.x before 16.1.3, 15.1.x before 15.1.6.1, and 14.1.x before 14.1.5, when a BIG-IP APM access policy with Service Connect agent is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed requests can cause an increase in memory resource utilization.…
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High 7.5
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in v8n
v8n is a javascript validation library. Versions of v8n prior to 1.5.1 were found to have an inefficient regular expression complexity in the `lowercase()` and `uppercase()` regex which could lead to a denial of service attack. In testing of the `lowercase()`…
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High 7.5
Memory allocation based on untrusted length in rust-websocket
Rust-WebSocket is a WebSocket (RFC6455) library written in Rust. In versions prior to 0.26.5 untrusted websocket connections can cause an out-of-memory (OOM) process abort in a client or a server. The root cause of the issue is during dataframe parsing. Affec…
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Medium 5.3
Unbounded gas consumption in @openzeppelin/contracts
OpenZeppelin Contracts is a library for secure smart contract development. The target contract of an EIP-165 `supportsInterface` query can cause unbounded gas consumption by returning a lot of data, while it is generally assumed that this operation has a boun…
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High 7.5
Juniper is vulnerable to @DOS GraphQL Nested Fragments overflow
Juniper is a GraphQL server library for Rust. Affected versions of Juniper are vulnerable to uncontrolled recursion resulting in a program crash. This issue has been addressed in version 0.15.10. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should li…
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Medium 5.9
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in node-fetch/node-fetch
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitHub repository node-fetch/node-fetch prior to 3.2.10.
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High 7.5
Ovarro TBox Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An attacker could use specially crafted invalid Modbus frames to crash the Ovarro TBox system.
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High 7.5
ReDoS in Apache MXNet RTC Module
A regular expression used in Apache MXNet (incubating) is vulnerable to a potential denial-of-service by excessive resource consumption. The bug could be exploited when loading a model in Apache MXNet that has a specially crafted operator name that would caus…
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High 7.5
Denial of Service (DoS)
The package github.com/containrrr/shoutrrr/pkg/util before 0.6.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the util.PartitionMessage function. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible by sending exactly 2000, 4000, or 6000 characters messages.
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Medium 4.3
Malicious imports can lead to Denial of Service
The legacy Slack import feature in Mattermost version 6.7.0 and earlier fails to properly limit the sizes of imported files, which allows an authenticated attacker to crash the server by importing large files via the Slack import REST API.
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High 7.5
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in ContentType.java. (GHSL-2022-022)
Apache Tapestry up to version 5.8.1 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the way it handles Content Types. Specially crafted Content Types may cause catastrophic backtracking, taking exponential time to complete. Specifically, this…
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Medium 4.4
KubeEdge Websocket Client in package Viaduct: DoS from large response message
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. Prior to versions 1.11.1, 1.10.2, and 1.9.4, a large response received by the viaduct WSClient can cause a DoS from memory exhaustion…
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Medium 4.4
KubeEdge Cloud Stream and Edge Stream DoS from large stream message
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. Prior to versions 1.11.1, 1.10.2, and 1.9.4, the Cloud Stream server and the Edge Stream server reads the entire message into memory …
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Medium 4.4
KubeEdge CloudCore Router memory exhaustion
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. Prior to versions 1.11.1, 1.10.2, and 1.9.4, the CloudCore Router does not impose a limit on the size of responses to requests made b…
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Medium 4.9
KubeEdge DoS when signing the CSR from EdgeCore
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. Prior to versions 1.11.1, 1.10.2, and 1.9.4, EdgeCore may be susceptible to a DoS attack on CloudHub if an attacker was to send a wel…
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Medium 4.5
KubeEdge Cloud AdmissionController component DoS
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. Prior to versions 1.11.1, 1.10.2, and 1.9.4, several endpoints in the Cloud AdmissionController may be susceptible to a DoS attack if…
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Medium 6.5
KubeEdge Edge ServiceBus module DoS
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. Prior to versions 1.11.1, 1.10.2, and 1.9.4, the ServiceBus server on the edge side may be susceptible to a DoS attack if an HTTP req…
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High 7.5
CODESYS: CmpChannelServer, CmpChannelServerEmbedded allow unauthenticated attackers to block all their available communication channels
In CmpChannelServer of CODESYS V3 in multiple versions an uncontrolled ressource consumption allows an unauthorized attacker to block new communication channel connections. Existing connections are not affected.
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High 7.5
CODESYS V3: CmpBlkDrvTcp allows unauthenticated attackers to block all its available TCP connections
In CmpBlkDrvTcp of CODESYS V3 in multiple versions an uncontrolled ressource consumption allows an unauthorized attacker to block new TCP connections. Existing connections are not affected.
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High 7.5
Jetty vulnerable to Invalid HTTP/2 requests that can lead to denial of service
In Eclipse Jetty HTTP/2 server implementation, when encountering an invalid HTTP/2 request, the error handling has a bug that can wind up not properly cleaning up the active connections and associated resources. This can lead to a Denial of Service scenario w…
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High 7.7
Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem Denial of Service Vulnerability
A vulnerability in Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (SSM On-Prem) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability is due to incorrect handling of multiple simultaneous de…
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Medium —
DOS and excessive memory usage when passing untrusted user input to to dag import
### Impact go-ipfs nodes crash when trying to import certain malformed CAR files due to an issue in the go-car dependency. This impacts nodes running `ipfs dag import` on untrusted user inputs, for example, pinning services with a car ingest endpoint. This in…
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Medium —
Malformed CAR panics and excessive memory usage
### Impact **Versions impacted** * `<=` go-car@v0.3.3 * `<=` go-car@v2.3.0 **Description** Decoding CAR data from untrusted user input can cause: - Panics: - Out of bound memory access - Out of memory - Divide by zero - Excessive memory usage Such panics can …
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High 7.5
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in moment
moment is a JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. Affected versions of moment were found to use an inefficient parsing algorithm. Specifically using string-to-date parsing in moment (more specifically rfc2822 par…
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Unscored —
The simplepush server iterates through the application installations and pushes a notification to the server provided b…
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Medium 5.3
Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in RSSHub
RSSHub is an open source, extensible RSS feed generator. In commits prior to 5c4177441417 passing some special values to the `filter` and `filterout` parameters can cause an abnormally high CPU. This results in an impact on the performance of the servers and …
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Medium —
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Spray JSON
Recursive decent parsers are susceptible too StackOverflowExceptions on too deeply nested structures as currently "open" parsing state is kept on the stack.
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High 7.5
Denial of service in readExternal method
The Security Team noticed that the termination condition of the for loop in the readExternal method is a controllable variable, which, if tampered with, may lead to CPU exhaustion. As a fix, we added an upper bound and termination condition in the read and wr…
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Medium 6.5
Argo CD vulnerable to Uncontrolled Memory Consumption
Argo CD is a declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes. Argo CD versions v0.7.0 and later are vulnerable to an uncontrolled memory consumption bug, allowing an authorized malicious user to crash the repo-server service, resulting in a Denial of Service…
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Medium 5.3
CODESYS Gateway Server V2 prone to Denial of Service Attack
In CODESYS Gateway Server V2 an insufficient check for the activity of TCP client connections allows an unauthenticated attacker to consume all available TCP connections and prevent legitimate users or clients from establishing a new connection to the CODESYS…
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High 7.5
Denial of Service (DoS)
All versions of package pg-native; all versions of package libpq are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when the addons attempt to cast the second argument to an array and fail. This happens for every non-array argument passed. **Note:** pg-native is a mer…
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High 7.5
Denial of Service (DoS)
All versions of package fast-string-search are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when computations are incorrect for non-string inputs. One can cause the V8 to attempt reading from non-permitted locations and cause a segmentation fault due to the violatio…
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High —
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in OPCFoundation.NetStandard.Opc.Ua.Core
OPC UA .NET Standard Stack 1.04.368 allows a remote attacker to exhaust the memory resources of a server via a crafted request that triggers Uncontrolled Resource Consumption.