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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Medium 6.5
TS4500 Tape Library Denial of Service
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Medium 6.9
AIOHTTP: Connector pool exhaustion via Max-Age overflow
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Medium 6.5
IBM MQ Denial of Service
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Medium 4.3
russh agent server converts constraint records into unbounded never-rolled-back tasks
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Medium 6.5
SGLang through 0.5.22 Memory Exhaustion via Mooncake STAGING_RSP chunk_idx
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Medium 6.5
SGLang through 0.5.22 Memory Exhaustion via Unauthenticated Mooncake Decode Registrations
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 4.3
AUTOMATIC1111 stable-diffusion-webui Metadata Extraction sd_models.py read_metadata_from_safetensors allocation of resources
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Medium 6.5
Libtirpc: libtirpc: denial of service via unbounded memory allocation during rpcsec_gss decoding
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Medium 6.5
Mattermost local image proxy allows server memory exhaustion via unbounded image response buffering
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Medium 4.3
Uncapped mention keys in user notification properties allow CPU exhaustion during post processing
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Medium 6.5
Nezha 1.0.0 before 2.3.15 Memory Exhaustion via File Manager WebSocket
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Medium 6.5
Nezha 2.0.13 before 2.3.15 Denial of Service via /api/v1/ws/transfer WebSocket
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Medium 5.9
undici WebSocket client vulnerable to Denial of Service via unbounded automatic PONG buffering
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Medium 5.9
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Medium 6.9
Lychee: Missing Authentication for Critical Function and Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling on /docs/api
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Medium 5.3
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 5.6
Pipecat: Public exposure of Pipecat’s development runner can allow unauthenticated bot session creation
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Medium 6.5
Junos OS: An attacker causes l2cpd crash when FNP is used with VLAN-VPLS encapsulation enabled
An Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in the l2cpd process of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service and l2cpd restart via FNP-enabled Layer 2 interfaces. The issue is…
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Medium 6.5
Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved: An attacker causes routing protocol daemon crash when OSPFv3 is enabled
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Medium 6.9
MCP Python SDK: Unbounded Session Accumulation in StreamableHTTP Transport Enables Resource Exhaustion
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Medium 6.0
RabbitMQ AMQP 1.0 parser: amplification memory-exhaustion DoS via zero-width array aggregation
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Medium 6.5
Dpdk: dpdk: missing memory size validation before mmap in vhost memory region setup
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Medium 4.3
Gitea Maven checksum upload quota bypass and memory exhaustion
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Medium 4.3
BottleCRM 0.45 through 1.14.5 Memory Exhaustion via Contact and Case CSV Import
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Medium 5.5
OW2 ASM 1.4.3 before 9.11 Excessive Resource Consumption via Analyzer
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Medium 5.3
Microsoft SQL Server Denial of Service Vulnerability
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in SQL Server allows an authorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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Medium 5.9
RPC Endpoint Mapper Service Denial of Service Vulnerability
Uncontrolled resource consumption in RPC Endpoint Mapper Service allows an unauthorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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Medium 6.5
Windows Netlogon Denial of Service Vulnerability
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Windows Netlogon allows an authorized attacker to deny service over a network.
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Medium 5.3
SLE API for Java: Uncontrolled Memory Allocation / handled exception leading to Denial of Service
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Medium 6.5
Unbounded memory allocation in the Prometheus rule conversion API
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Medium 5.3
Git Sync memory exhaustion via a malicious Git server
A Git server that Grafana's Git Sync (provisioning) is configured to use can exhaust Grafana's memory by returning oversized or highly compressed responses (uncontrolled resource consumption). Exploitation requires an administrator to have configured Git Sync…
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Medium 6.5
FreeRDP 3.20.1 before 3.32.0 Unbounded Allocation via drive_process_irp_read
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Medium 6.5
IBM® Db2® is vulnerable to a denial of service when inserting into a table with XML columns under specific conditions
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Medium 6.5
Gitoxide gix-pack before 0.75.0 Denial of Service via Pack Header Object Count
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Medium 4.9
SurrealDB 3.1.0 before 3.3.0 Memory Exhaustion via Surrealism Module Output Buffering
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Medium 6.5
SiYuan v3.1.12 before v3.8.6 Denial of Service via getDynamicIcon Template
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Medium 6.5
Open WebUI 0.11.0 before 0.11.4 Memory Exhaustion via Knowledge Search Regex
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Medium 4.3
zhayujie CowAgent Streaming Tool-Call Argument json.loads allocation of resources
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