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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High 8.7
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Low 3.5
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High 8.7
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Medium 6.5
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Medium 5.9
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undici's decompress interceptor decompresses response bodies according to the untrusted Content-Encoding header. While the number of content-encoding layers is capped, the total decompressed output size is unbounded and there is no configuration option to lim…
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High 7.5
Chroma 1.5.9 Unbounded HNSW Index Parameters Memory Exhaustion
Chroma 1.5.9 fails to validate maximum bounds on HNSW index parameters max_neighbors, ef_construction, and ef_search in collection-create requests. Unauthenticated attackers can supply arbitrarily large parameter values to exhaust server memory and cause deni…
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High 8.2
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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
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High 7.5
SiYuan before v3.8.2 Denial of Service via Auth Throttle
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High 7.5
SiYuan before v3.8.2 Denial of Service via unauthenticated UI-process registration
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Medium 6.5
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High 7.5
MOOS core-moos through 10.4.0 MOOSDB HTTP Server Resource Exhaustion
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High 7.5
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High 7.5
MOOS-IvP through 24.8.1 uFldShoreBroker Unbounded Community State Retention
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High 7.5
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High 7.5
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High 7.5
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Medium 4.3
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Medium 4.7
Gfs2-utils: gfs2-utils: stack overflow via alloca(i_height) in metadata walk
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Medium 4.7
Gfs2-utils: gfs2-utils: stack overflow via alloca(1<<di_depth) in hash table traversal
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High 7.5
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High 7.5
Prevent DoS on deadlocked undecided channel in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
Previously, a channel registered in the mux's chanList is not usable until it is established. A malicious peer was able flood the channel's incomingRequests, deadlocking the entire connection. Now, we add an atomic established state, set when a channel become…
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High 7.1
Boruta: Authenticated atom-exhaustion DoS in BorutaIdentityWeb.UserSettingsController.update/2
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Medium 5.3
Nexus Repository 3 - Denial of Service via Unbounded Maven POM Metadata Fields
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Medium 6.5
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Filebeat Leading to Denial of Service
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Medium 6.5
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
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Medium 5.3
WordPress WP Go Maps plugin <= 10.1.08 - Denial of Service Attack vulnerability
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Medium 5.3
WordPress Really Simple SSL plugin <= 9.8.0 - Denial of Service Attack vulnerability
Unauthenticated Denial of Service Attack in Really Simple SSL <= 9.8.0 versions.
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Medium 6.5
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding only low, read-level Agent Builder privileges could submit a specially crafted request…
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Medium 6.5
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
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Medium 4.9
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
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Medium 6.5
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
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High 8.7
inets,httpd: Memory Exhaustion via Unenforced max_body_size During Chunked Body Reception
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High 8.7
xmldom: Quadratic-memory consumption
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High 8.2
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High 8.7
httpd does not enforce the documented default max_clients connection limit
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High 8.2
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High 8.7
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High 8.7
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