Weakness (CWE)
CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any intended restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated.
How to prevent it (8 mitigations)
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Requirements
Clearly specify the minimum and maximum expectations for capabilities, and dictate which behaviors are acceptable when resource allocation reaches limits.
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Architecture and Design
Limit the amount of resources that are accessible to unprivileged users. Set per-user limits for resources. Allow the system administrator to define these limits. Be careful to avoid CWE-410.
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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, and it will help the administrator to identify who is committing the abuse. 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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Implementation
Assume all input is malicious. Use an "accept known good" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.
When performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, "boat" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as "red" or "blue."
Do not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.
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Architecture and Design
For any security checks that are performed on the client side, ensure that these checks are duplicated on the server side, in order to avoid CWE-602. Attackers can bypass the client-side checks by modifying values after the checks have been performed, or by changing the client to remove the client-side checks entirely. Then, these modified values would be submitted to the server.
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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, typically by using increasing time delays
- 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 can be difficult to effectively institute -- and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply requires 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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Architecture and Design, Implementation
If the program must fail, ensure that it fails gracefully (fails closed). There may be a temptation to simply let the program fail poorly in cases such as low memory conditions, but an attacker may be able to assert control before the software has fully exited. Alternately, an uncontrolled failure could cause cascading problems with other downstream components; for example, the program could send a signal to a downstream process so the process immediately knows that a problem has occurred and has a better chance of recovery.
Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.
Source: MITRE CWE-770
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Critical 9.1
Apache OFBiz: Denial of Service via unauthenticated userTenantId in multitenant mode
In multitenant deployments, ContextFilter and LoginWorker built a per-tenant delegator name from a request-supplied userTenantId parameter and requested a delegator for it before confirming the tenant existed. DelegatorFactory's internal cache retains every d…
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Critical 9.1
Apache Kafka: Broker OutOfMemoryError via tagged-field allocation amplification in flexible protocol request parsing
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Critical 9.1
Apache Kafka: Broker OutOfMemoryError via array allocation amplification in code-generated protocol readers
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Critical 9.8
Grav API Plugin before 1.0.42 Cache Exhaustion and Page Permission Bypass
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Critical 9.2
Apache Thrift: C++ THttpTransport grows its line buffer without bound
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling, Integer overflow or wraparound, Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Apache Thrift. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.25.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.25.0, which fixes t…
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Critical 9.8
Apache Storm DRPC: Unauthenticated Unbounded Memory Growth in DRPC
Description The DRPC server kept a map from function name to request queue and created an entry the first time a function name was seen. No code path ever removed an entry: request cleanup removed the request from its queue, and the shutdown path drained queu…
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Critical 9.8
Spring Framework maxInMemorySize Bypassed in Jaxb2Decoder
A Spring WebFlux application that relies on the Aalto XML processor to parse XML input does not correctly enforce the maxInMemorySize limit. Spring Framework 7.0.0 - 7.0.8 Spring Framework 6.2.0 - 6.2.19 Spring Framework 6.1.0 - 6.1.28 Spring Framework 6.0.0 …
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Critical 9.1
CakePHP: Potential Authentication bypass with CookieAuthenticator
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Critical 9.8
openssl_encrypt before 1.4.0 TOTP Rate Limiter Bypass
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Critical 9.2
node-tar: Decompression/parse DoS via unlimited input
node-tar is a tar archive manipulation library for Node.js. Prior to 7.5.19, node-tar does not enforce hard upper bounds on total decompressed data, entry counts, or decompression ratio in extraction and parsing paths such as src/extract.ts, allowing a small …
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Critical 9.3
DVP-12SE Exposure of Sensitive Information Vulnerability
Delta Electronics DVP12SE PLCs are susceptible to a resource allocation vulnerability without limits or throttling (CWE-770) within their Modbus TCP service.
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Critical 9.2
Remote code execution and denial of service via unsafe Erlang term deserialization in elixir-grpc/grpc
Deserialization of Untrusted Data and Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerabilities in elixir-grpc grpc allow unauthenticated attackers to crash the BEAM node via atom table exhaustion and, when a decoded term flows into a call site tha…
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Critical 9.1
Axonflow fixed bugs by implementing multi-tenant isolation and access-control hardening
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-31283 Public exploit
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Critical 9.2
Navidrome affected by Denial of Service and disk exhaustion via oversized `size` parameter in `/rest/getCoverArt` and `/share/img/<token>` endpoints
Navidrome is an open source web-based music collection server and streamer. Prior to version 0.60.0, authenticated users can crash the Navidrome server by supplying an excessively large size parameter to /rest/getCoverArt or to a shared-image URL (/share/img/…
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Critical 9.8
Filetto 1.0 - 'FEAT' Denial of Service
Filetto 1.0 FTP server contains a denial of service vulnerability in the FEAT command processing that allows attackers to crash the service. Attackers can send an oversized FEAT command with 11,008 bytes of repeated characters to trigger a buffer overflow and…
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Critical 9.8
GeoGebra CAS Calculator 6.0.631.0 - Denial of Service
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Critical 9.2
joserfc has Possible Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability Triggered by Logging Arbitrarily Large JWT Token Payloads
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Critical 10.0CVE-2025-11832 Public exploit
APIs Lack Rate Limiting
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Critical 9.2
Denial of Service (DoS) in WeGIA due to Recursive Crawling of Dynamic URLs
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Critical 9.3
Lack of rate-limiting in password change mechanism in CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager
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Critical —
Namada-apps allows Excessive Computation in Mempool Validation
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Critical —
Namada-apps can Crash with Excessive Computation in Mempool Validation
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Critical 9.8
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Critical 9.8
Potential race conditions in IndexedDB could have caused memory corruption, leading to a potentially exploitable crash.…
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Critical 9.1CVE-2024-38821 Public exploit
Authorization Bypass of Static Resources in WebFlux Applications
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Critical 9.8
net: lantiq: fix memory corruption in RX ring
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Critical 9.0
Freely Allocate Buffer on The Stack With Data From Socket
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Critical 9.8
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Critical 9.1
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Critical 9.1
OpenStack os-vif Ageing time of 0 disables linuxbridge MAC learning
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