Weakness (CWE)
CWE-405: Amplification
The product does not properly control situations in which an adversary can cause the product to consume or produce excessive resources without requiring the adversary to invest equivalent work or otherwise prove authorization, i.e., the adversary's influence is "asymmetric."
How to prevent it (3 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
An application must make resources available to a client commensurate with the client's access level.
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Architecture and Design
An application must, at all times, keep track of allocated resources and meter their usage appropriately.
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System Configuration
Consider disabling resource-intensive algorithms on the server side, such as Diffie-Hellman key exchange.
Source: MITRE CWE-405
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Medium 6.9
minimatch: potential denial of service via globparts amplification
minimatch is a minimal matching utility for converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. Starting in 7.0.0 and prior to 11.0.1, src/index.ts implements firstPhasePreProcess() so that, at optimizationLevel 2 or higher, it repeatedly expands atta…
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Medium 5.9
undici WebSocket client vulnerable to Denial of Service via unbounded automatic PONG buffering
undici is an HTTP client library for Node.js. In versions 5.15.0 through 6.29.0, 7.0.0 through 7.30.0, and 8.0.0 through 8.12.1, its WebSocket client, including the bundled WebSocket exposed by Node.js, can be driven to exhaust process memory by a malicious o…
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Medium 5.9
.NET Denial of Service Vulnerability
A denial of service vulnerability exists when Microsoft Common Object Runtime Library improperly handles web requests. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could cause a denial of service against a .NET web application. A remote unauthent…
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Medium 6.9
wolfSSH server accepts server-to-client DH group exchange messages from an unauthenticated client, causing pre-authentication primality-test CPU exhaustion and key exchange role confusion
src/internal.c in wolfSSL wolfSSH through 1.5.0 admits the server-to-client Diffie-Hellman group exchange messages SSH_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP (31) and SSH_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY (33) when a server receives them from an unauthenticated client. IsMessageAllowedServ…
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Medium 5.3
Zebra before 6.1.0 Batch-Verification Poisoning DoS via Unattributed Pushed Transactions
ZcashFoundation Zebra before 6.1.0 contains a resource exhaustion vulnerability that allows unauthenticated peers to degrade block processing by pushing transactions with invalid Orchard proofs without being misbehavior-scored. Attackers can repeatedly push i…
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Medium 5.3
Message parser retains every identical singleton RDATA, enabling wire-to-work amplification
In a query response, an attacker may send `named` multiple copies of a record that should only exist once (such as an SOA record). If the RDATA is the same on all the copies, the record is appended to the in-memory RDATA set, which can cause increased memory …
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Medium 5.3
commonmark 2.0.0 before 2.8.4 Denial of Service via XML
commonmark versions from 2.0.0 before 2.8.4 contain a denial of service vulnerability in XmlRenderer that emits depth-proportional indentation for every XML tag. Attackers can provide deeply nested Markdown or AST structures to cause quadratic memory consumpt…
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Medium 4.3
Robots::Validate versions from 0.3.2 before 0.3.11 for Perl allow unbounded outbound DNS queries per validation via a forward-confirmation loop that does not bound the names it queries
Robots::Validate versions from 0.3.2 before 0.3.11 for Perl allow unbounded outbound DNS queries per validation via a forward-confirmation loop that does not bound the names it queries. _check_dns issues one PTR query for the client address, keeps the returne…
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Medium 4.8
pypdf: Possible long runtimes/large memory usage when retrieving outlines
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to 6.16.1, an attacker can craft a PDF that causes pypdf/_doc_common.py _get_outline to consume long runtimes and large amounts of memory when retrieving document outlines with large numbers of en…
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Medium 5.1
Frontend DoS via the validate.api.exists action
An authenticated user is able to cause disproportionate CPU load on the Frontend webserver by sending specifically crafted requests to the Frontend validate.api.exists action, leading to potential denial of service.
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Medium 5.3
Frontend DoS via the popup.testtriggerexpr action
An unauthenticated user is able to cause disproportionate CPU load on the Frontend webserver by sending specifically crafted requests to the Frontend popup.testtriggerexpr action, leading to potential denial of service.
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Medium 5.3
league/commonmark: Denial of service via deeply nested XML output
### Impact `XmlRenderer` pretty-prints XML by emitting depth-proportional indentation whitespace for **every** opening and closing tag. For a tree of depth n, the indentation alone sums to **O(n²)** bytes of output (and corresponding memory), reachable throug…
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Medium 6.6
decode-uri-component: Denial of service via exponential decoding of malformed percent-encoded input
decode-uri-component through 0.4.1 is vulnerable to denial of service. The decode() function splits input on '%' producing N tokens and calls decodeComponents(), exhibiting super-linear parsing time: 200 '%ab' tokens takes approximately 0.7s, 700 tokens appro…
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Medium 5.3
AutoGPT: There is a DoS vulnerability in AITextSummarizerBlock
AutoGPT is a workflow automation platform for creating, deploying, and managing continuous artificial intelligence agents. Prior to 0.6.32, there is a DoS vulnerability in AITextSummarizerBlock. Malicious users can amplify their input. For example, if a malic…
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Medium 6.2
Text::LineFold versions through 2019.001 for Perl duplicate the output based on the number of special break characters
Text::LineFold versions through 2019.001 for Perl duplicate the output based on the number of special break characters. Text::LineFold splits the input string by specific line break characters (such as VT, FF and others) into segments, but applies the break f…
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Medium 5.3
Nerdbank.MessagePack has a memory amplification DoS in collection deserialization
Nerdbank.MessagePack deserializers for many collection-shaped types trusted the element count declared in MessagePack array and map headers when allocating destination storage. A crafted payload could therefore force large arrays, pooled buffers, dictionaries…
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Medium 5.8
Technitium DNS Server excessive DNSSEC requests
Technitium DNS Server aggressively tries to fetch missing RRSIG records or mismatched DNSKEY records. An attacker in control of a domain can cause a vulnerable system to generate excessive network traffic. Fixed in 15.0.
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Medium 5.3
OpenClaw < 2026.3.24 - Denial of Service via Feishu Webhook Pre-Auth Body Parsing
OpenClaw before 2026.3.24 contains an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-32011 where the Feishu webhook handler accepts request bodies with permissive limits of 1MB and 30-second timeout before signature verification. An unauthenticated attacker can exhaust server c…
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Medium 5.3
OpenClaw < 2026.3.22 - Unauthenticated Resource Exhaustion via Voice Call Webhook
OpenClaw before 2026.3.22 contains an unauthenticated resource exhaustion vulnerability in voice call webhook handling that buffers request bodies before provider signature checks. Attackers can send large or malicious webhook requests to exhaust server resou…
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Medium 5.3
Bitcoin Core through 29.0 allows a denial of service via a crafted transaction.
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Medium 6.5
Denial of service (DOS) vulnerability in SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (AdminTools)
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform (AdminTools) allows an authenticated attacker with user privileges to execute a specific query in AdminTools that could cause the Content Management Server (CMS) to crash, rendering the CMS partially or compl…
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Medium 5.3
Marshmallow has DoS in Schema.load(many)
Marshmallow is a lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes. In versions from 3.0.0rc1 to before 3.26.2 and from 4.0.0 to before 4.1.2, Schema.load(data, many=True) is vulnerable to denial of service attacks. A mode…
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Medium 5.9
Denial of Service (DoS) in SAPUI5 framework (Markdown-it component)
SAPUI5 (and OpenUI5) packages use outdated 3rd party libraries with known security vulnerabilities. When markdown-it encounters special malformed input, it fails to terminate properly, resulting in an infinite loop. This Denial of Service via infinite loop ca…
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Medium 6.0
Frontend DoS vulnerability due to asymmetric resource consumption
An authenticated Zabbix user (including Guest) is able to cause disproportionate CPU load on the webserver by sending specially crafted parameters to /imgstore.php, leading to potential denial of service.
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Medium 5.3
CVE-2025-26516 Denial of Service Vulnerability in StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale)
StorageGRID (formerly StorageGRID Webscale) versions prior to 11.8.0.15 and 11.9.0.8 are susceptible to a Denial of Service vulnerability. Successful exploit could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service on the Admin node.
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Medium 4.8
HCL Connections Docs is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack
HCL Connections Docs may mishandle validation of certain uploaded documents leading to denial of service due to resource exhaustion.
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Medium —
swift-nio-http2 affected by HTTP/2 MadeYouReset vulnerability
The HTTP/2 [MadeYouReset vulnerability](https://galbarnahum.com/made-you-reset) has a mild effect on swift-nio-http2. swift-nio-http2 mostly protects against MadeYouReset by using a number of existing denial-of-service prevention patterns that we added in res…
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Medium 6.0
net-imap rubygem vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion
Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality in Ruby. Prior to versions 0.5.7, 0.4.20, 0.3.9, and 0.2.5, there is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion when net-imap reads server responses. At any time w…
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Medium 6.5
Net::IMAP vulnerable to possible DoS by memory exhaustion
Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality in Ruby. Starting in version 0.3.2 and prior to versions 0.3.8, 0.4.19, and 0.5.6, there is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion in `net-imap`'s response par…
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Medium 6.9
UDP traffic amplification via fastd's fast reconnect feature
fastd is a VPN daemon which tunnels IP packets and Ethernet frames over UDP. When receiving a data packet from an unknown IP address/port combination, fastd will assume that one of its connected peers has moved to a new address and initiate a reconnect by sen…
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Medium 6.5
IBM InfoSphere Information Server denial of service
IBM InfoSphere Information Server could allow an authenticated user to consume file space resources due to unrestricted file uploads. IBM X-Force ID: 298279.
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Medium 5.3
Botan has a Denial of Service Due to Excessive Name Constraints
Botan is a C++ cryptography library. X.509 certificates can identify elliptic curves using either an object identifier or using explicit encoding of the parameters. Prior to 3.5.0 and 2.19.5, checking name constraints in X.509 certificates is quadratic in the…
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Medium 5.9
IBM MQ Container denial of service
IBM MQ Operator 3.2.2 and IBM MQ Operator 2.0.24 IBM MQ Container Developer Edition is vulnerable to denial of service caused by incorrect memory de-allocation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume memory resources…
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Medium 6.2
Quoted zip-bomb protection for zipfile
An issue was found in the CPython `zipfile` module affecting versions 3.12.1, 3.11.7, 3.10.13, 3.9.18, and 3.8.18 and prior. The zipfile module is vulnerable to “quoted-overlap” zip-bombs which exploit the zip format to create a zip-bomb with a high compressi…
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Medium 5.9
TYPO3 subject to Uncontrolled Recursion resulting in Denial of Service
TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system. In versions prior to 9.5.38, 10.4.33, 11.5.20, and 12.1.1, requesting invalid or non-existing resources via HTTP triggers the page error handler, which again could retrieve content to be shown a…
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Medium 6.5
Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) in Docker containers created by Wings
Wings is the control plane software for the open source Pterodactyl game management system. All versions of Pterodactyl Wings prior to `1.4.4` are vulnerable to system resource exhaustion due to improper container process limits being defined. A malicious use…
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Medium 5.9
Denial of Service in Page Error Handling
TYPO3 is an open source PHP based web content management system. In TYPO3 before versions 9.5.25, 10.4.14, 11.1.1 requesting invalid or non-existing resources via HTTP triggers the page error handler which again could retrieve content to be shown as error mes…
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Medium 5.3CVE-2019-11479 EPSS 91%
Jonathan Looney discovered that the Linux kernel default MSS is hard-coded to 48 bytes. This allows a remote peer to fr…