Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
CWE-1050
The product has a loop body or loop condition that contains a control element that directly or indirectly consumes platform resources, e.g. messaging, sessions, locks, or file descriptors.
We track 10 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 7.5.
Latest Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop vulnerabilities
- 7.5 High severity
BIND 9: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
If a BIND resolver has cached a tree of SVCB/HTTPS AliasMode records, and is then queried for the root of that tree, the resolver will spend disproportionate CPU time constructing the response. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.0 through 9.18.50, 9.20.0
- 7.5 High severity
commonmark: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
league/commonmark is a PHP library for parsing and rendering CommonMark Markdown. From 0.6.0 until 2.9.0, specially crafted Markdown lines can cause the parser to have quadratic time complexity when converting, because several parsing paths repeatedly rescan g
- 7.5 High severity
ws: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
ws is an open source WebSocket client and server for Node.js. All versions from 1.1.0 up to (but not including) 5.2.5, from 6.0.0 up to 6.2.4, from 7.0.0 up to 7.5.11, and from 8.0.0 up to 8.21.0 are affected by a memory exhaustion DoS vulnerability. A peer ca
- 7.5 High severity
Unbound: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
NLnet Labs Unbound up to and including version 1.25.0 is vulnerable to a degradation of service attack related to parsing long lists of incoming EDNS options. An adversary sending queries with too many EDNS options can hold Unbound threads hostage while they a
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.2: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
A flaw was found in Keycloak. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted POST request with an excessively long scope parameter to the OpenID Connect (OIDC) token endpoint. This leads to high resource consumption a
- 7.5 High severity
Evershop: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in evershop 2.1.0 and prior allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust the application server's resources via the "GET /images" API. The application fails to limit the height of the use-element shadow tree or the dimens
- 7.5 High severity
ModSecurity: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions prior to 2.9.10 contain a denial of service vulnerability similar to GHSA-859r-vvv8-rm8r/CVE-2025-47947. The `sanitiseArg` (and `sanitizeArg
- 7.5 High severity
ModSecurity: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
ModSecurity is an open source, cross platform web application firewall (WAF) engine for Apache, IIS and Nginx. Versions up to and including 2.9.8 are vulnerable to denial of service in one special case (in stable released versions): when the payload's content
- 7.5 High severity
braces: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
The NPM package `braces`, versions prior to 3.0.3, fails to limit the number of characters it can handle, which could lead to Memory Exhaustion. In `lib/parse.js,` if a malicious user sends "imbalanced braces" as input, the parsing will enter a loop, which wil
- 7.5 High severity
Linux kernel (TIPC kernel module): Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
A remote denial of service vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel’s TIPC kernel module. The while loop in tipc_link_xmit() hits an unknown state while attempting to parse SKBs, which are not in the queue. Sending two small UDP packets to a system with a U