Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-400
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
We track 1,380 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 7.6. 8 have been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Architecture and Design: Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
- Implementation: Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.
Latest Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerabilities
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The etcd package distributed with the Red Hat OpenStack platform has an incomplete fix for CVE-2021-44716. This issue occurs because the etcd package in the Red Hat OpenStack platform is using http://golang.org/x/net/http2 instead of the one provided by Red Ha
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The etcd package distributed with the Red Hat OpenStack platform has an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-41723. This issue occurs because the etcd package in the Red Hat OpenStack platform is using http://golang.org/x/net/http2 instead of the one provided by Red Ha
- 7.5 High severity
UA .NET Standard: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
OPC Foundation UA .NET Standard ConditionRefresh Resource Exhaustion Denial-of-Service Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of OPC Foundation UA .NET Standard. Authenticatio
- 7.5 High severity
minder: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Minder's `HandleGithubWebhook` is susceptible to a denial of service attack from an untrusted HTTP request. The vulnerability exists before the request has been validated, and as such the request is still untrusted at the point of failure. This allows an attac
- 7.5 High severity
suricata: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to 7.0.5 and 6.0.19, a small amount of HTTP/2 traffic can lead to Suricata using a large amount of memory. The issue has been addressed
- 7.5 High severity
LAN Messenger: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Remote denial of service vulnerability in LAN Messenger affecting version 3.4.0. This vulnerability allows an attacker to crash the LAN Messenger service by sending a long string directly and continuously over the UDP protocol.
- 7.5 High severity
go-ethereum: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. Prior to 1.13.15, a vulnerable node can be made to consume very large amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix has
- 7.5 High severity
DIAEnergie: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A denial of service vulnerability exists in Delta Electronics DIAEnergie v1.10.1.8610 and prior. When processing an 'ICS Restart!' message, CEBC.exe restarts the system.
- 7.5 High severity
mediawiki: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An issue was discovered in includes/specials/SpecialMovePage.php in MediaWiki before 1.39.7, 1.40.x before 1.40.3, and 1.41.x before 1.41.1. If a user with the necessary rights to move the page opens Special:MovePage for a page with tens of thousands of subpag
- 7.5 High severity
Ignition: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Inductive Automation Ignition ConditionRefresh Resource Exhaustion Denial-of-Service Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Inductive Automation Ignition. Authentication is
- 7.5 High severity
edgeConnector Siemens: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Softing edgeConnector Siemens ConditionRefresh Resource Exhaustion Denial-of-Service Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Softing edgeConnector Siemens. Authentication is
- 7.5 High severity
rust-yamux: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Yamux is a stream multiplexer over reliable, ordered connections such as TCP/IP. The Rust implementation of the Yamux stream multiplexer uses a vector for pending frames. This vector is not bounded in length. Every time the Yamux protocol requires sending of a
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed Always flush the per-vCPU async #PF workqueue when a vCPU is clearing its completion queue, e.g. when a VM and all its vCPUs
- 7.5 High severity
PHP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In PHP 8.3.* before 8.3.5, function mb_encode_mimeheader() runs endlessly for some inputs that contain long strings of non-space characters followed by a space. This could lead to a potential DoS attack if a hostile user sends data to an application that uses
- 7.5 High severity
parisneo/lollms-webui: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
parisneo/lollms-webui is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack due to uncontrolled resource consumption. Attackers can exploit the `/open_code_in_vs_code` and similar endpoints without authentication by sending repeated HTTP POST requests, leading to
- 7.5 High severity
mintplex-labs/anything-llm: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in the mintplex-labs/anything-llm repository when the application is running in 'just me' mode with a password. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by making a request to the endpoint using the [validatedRe
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lan966x: Fix crash when adding interface under a lag There is a crash when adding one of the lan966x interfaces under a lag interface. The issue can be reproduced like this: ip link add name b
- 7.5 High severity
Elasticsearch: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where processing a document in a deeply nested pipeline on an ingest node could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash.
- 7.5 High severity
Common Cryptographic Architecture: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) 7.0.0 through 7.5.36 could allow a remote user to cause a denial of service due to incorrect data handling for certain types of AES operations. IBM X-Force ID: 270602.
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.0 for Spring…: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A flaw was found in XNIO. The XNIO NotifierState that can cause a Stack Overflow Exception when the chain of notifier states becomes problematically large can lead to uncontrolled resource management and a possible denial of service (DoS).
- 7.5 High severity
fast_dds: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An issue in the HistoryQosPolicy component of FastDDS v2.12.x, v2.11.x, v2.10.x, and v2.6.x leads to a SIGABRT (signal abort) upon receiving DataWriter's data.
- 7.5 High severity
discourse: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Without a rate limit on the POST /uploads endpoint, it makes it easier for an attacker to carry out a DoS attack on the server since creating an upload can be a resource intensive process. Do note
- 7.5 High severity
tls-listener: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
tls-listener is a rust lang wrapper around a connection listener to support TLS. With the default configuration of tls-listener, a malicious user can open 6.4 `TcpStream`s a second, sending 0 bytes, and can trigger a DoS. The default configuration options make
- 7.5 High severity
quiche: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Cloudflare Quiche (through version 0.19.1/0.20.0) was affected by an unlimited resource allocation vulnerability causing rapid increase of memory usage of the system running quiche server or client. A remote attacker could take advantage of this vulnerability
- 7.8 High severity
iOS and iPadOS: Out-of-bounds Write
A memory corruption vulnerability was addressed with improved locking. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.6 and iPadOS 16.7.6, iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, macOS Monterey 12.7.4, macOS Sonoma 14.4, macOS Ventura 13.6.5, tvOS 17.4, visionOS 1.1, watchOS 10.4. An app
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: jfs: fix slab-out-of-bounds Read in dtSearch Currently while searching for current page in the sorted entry table of the page there is a out of bound access. Added a bound check to fix the err
- 7.5 High severity
phpseclib: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An issue was discovered in phpseclib 1.x before 1.0.23, 2.x before 2.0.47, and 3.x before 3.0.36. When processing the ASN.1 object identifier of a certificate, a sub identifier may be provided that leads to a denial of service (CPU consumption for decodeOID).
- 7.5 High severity
1x: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An issue was discovered in phpseclib 1.x before 1.0.23, 2.x before 2.0.47, and 3.x before 3.0.36. An attacker can construct a malformed certificate containing an extremely large prime to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for an isPrime primality check
- 8.6 High severity
Cisco NX-OS Software: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A vulnerability in the External Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) implementation of Cisco NX-OS Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected device. This vulnerability exists because eBGP tra
- 7.5 High severity
rack: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Carefully crafted Range headers can cause a server to respond with an unexpectedly large response. Responding with such large responses could lead to a denial of service issue. Vulnerable applications will use the `
- 7.5 High severity
srelay: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In Srelay (the SOCKS proxy and Relay) v.0.4.8p3, a specially crafted network payload can trigger a denial of service condition and disrupt the service.
- 7.5 High severity
suricata: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Suricata is a network Intrusion Detection System, Intrusion Prevention System and Network Security Monitoring engine. Prior to version 7.0.3, excessive memory use during pgsql parsing could lead to OOM-related crashes. This vulnerability is patched in 7.0.3. A
- 7.5 High severity
jetty.project: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Jetty is a Java based web server and servlet engine. An HTTP/2 SSL connection that is established and TCP congested will be leaked when it times out. An attacker can cause many connections to end up in this state, and the server may run out of file descriptors
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.4.1 for Spring…: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A vulnerability was found in Undertow. This vulnerability impacts a server that supports the wildfly-http-client protocol. Whenever a malicious user opens and closes a connection with the HTTP port of the server and then closes the connection immediately, the
- 7.5 High severity
squid: Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value
Squid is an open source caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. Due to a Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value bug ,Squid may be vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack against HTTP header parsing. This problem allows a remote client or
- 7.5 High severity
Hci Baseboard Management Controller: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance is skipped) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption for SHA-1 computations) via DNSSEC responses in a random subdomain attack, aka the "NSEC
- 7.5 High severity
mod_auth_openidc: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
mod_auth_openidc is an OpenID Certified™ authentication and authorization module for the Apache 2.x HTTP server that implements the OpenID Connect Relying Party functionality. In affected versions missing input validation on mod_auth_openidc_session_chunks coo
- 7.5 High severity
F30 03X YY (COM): Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An unauthenticated remote attacker can use an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability to DoS the affected devices through excessive traffic on a single ethernet port.
- 7.5 High severity
Niagara Framework: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Honeywell Niagara Framework on Windows, Linux, QNX allows Content Spoofing.This issue affects Niagara Framework: before Niagara AX 3.8.1, before Niagara 4.1.
- 9.8 Critical severity
In the Samly package before 1.4.0 for Elixir, Samly.State.Store.get_assertion/3 can return an…
In the Samly package before 1.4.0 for Elixir, Samly.State.Store.get_assertion/3 can return an expired session, which interferes with access control because Samly.AuthHandler uses a cached session and does not replace it, even after expiry.