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
Android: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In Minikin, there is a possible way to trigger ANR by showing a malicious message due to resource exhaustion. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.
- 7.5 High severity
Elasticsearch: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An issue has been identified with how Elasticsearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an Elasticsearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests. The issue was
- 7.5 High severity
Firefox: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Drivers are not always robust to extremely large draw calls and in some cases this scenario could have led to a crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 119, Firefox ESR < 115.4, and Thunderbird < 115.4.1.
- 7.5 High severity
werkzeug: Out-of-bounds Write
Werkzeug is a comprehensive WSGI web application library. In versions on the 3.x branch prior to 3.0.1 and on the 2.x branch prior to 2.3.8, if an upload of a file that starts with CR or LF and then is followed by megabytes of data without these characters: al
- 7.5 High severity
rabbitmq-java-client: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. `maxBodyLebgth` was not used when receiving Message objects. Attackers could send a very large Message causing a memory overflow and trigger
- 7.5 High severity
PingFederate: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
PingFederate Administrative Console dependency contains a weakness where console becomes unresponsive with crafted Java class loading enumeration requests
- 7.5 High severity
Apache HTTP Server: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An attacker, opening a HTTP/2 connection with an initial window size of 0, was able to block handling of that connection indefinitely in Apache HTTP Server. This could be used to exhaust worker resources in the server, similar to the well known "slow loris" at
- 7.5 High severity
openfga: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
OpenFGA is a flexible authorization/permission engine built for developers and inspired by Google Zanzibar. Affected versions of OpenFGA are vulnerable to a denial of service attack. When a number of `ListObjects` calls are executed, in some scenarios, those c
- 7.5 High severity
discourse: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. A malicious request can cause production log files to quickly fill up and thus result in the server running out of disk space. This problem has been patched in the 3.1.1 stable and 3.2.0.beta2 vers
- 7.5 High severity
silverstripe-graphql: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
silverstripe-graphql is a package which serves Silverstripe data in GraphQL representations. An attacker could use a recursive graphql query to execute a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS attack) against a website. This mostly affects websites with pu
- 7.5 High severity
Security Verify Access: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
IBM Security Verify Access OIDC Provider could allow a remote user to cause a denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption. IBM X-Force ID: 238921.
- 7.5 High severity
Junos OS: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in the Packet Forwarding Engine (pfe) of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series allows a unauthenticated network-based attacker to cause an infinite loop, resulting in a Denial of Service (D
- 7.5 High severity
ONTAP 9: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
ONTAP 9 versions prior to 9.8P19, 9.9.1P16, 9.10.1P12, 9.11.1P8, 9.12.1P2 and 9.13.1 are susceptible to a vulnerability which could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a crash of the HTTP service.
- 7.5 High severity
SoftEther VPN: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the vpnserver ConnectionAccept() functionality of SoftEther VPN 5.02. A set of specially crafted network connections can lead to denial of service. An attacker can send a sequence of malicious packets to trigger this
- 7.5 High severity
jetty.project: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Eclipse Jetty provides a web server and servlet container. In versions 11.0.0 through 11.0.15, 10.0.0 through 10.0.15, and 9.0.0 through 9.4.52, an integer overflow in `MetaDataBuilder.checkSize` allows for HTTP/2 HPACK header values to exceed their size limit
- 7.5 High severity
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack Exploited
The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.
- 7.5 High severity
Mattermost: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Mattermost fails to enforce a limit for the size of the cache entry for OpenGraph data allowing an attacker to send a specially crafted request to the /api/v4/opengraph filling the cache and turning the server unavailable.
- 7.5 High severity
opentelemetry-python-contrib: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel for short, is a vendor-neutral open-source Observability framework for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting telemetry data such as traces, metrics, logs. Autoinstrumentation out of the box adds the label `http_
- 7.5 High severity
Cisco Emergency Responder: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A vulnerability in an API endpoint of multiple Cisco Unified Communications Products could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause high CPU utilization, which could impact access to the web-based management interface and cause delays with call proce
- 7.5 High severity
asyncua: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
Versions of the package asyncua before 0.9.96 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) such that an attacker can send a malformed packet and as a result, the server will enter into an infinite loop and consume excessive memory.
- 8.6 High severity
Cisco Aironet Access Point Software: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A vulnerability in the networking component of Cisco access point (AP) software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a temporary disruption of service. This vulnerability is due to overuse of AP resources. An attacker could exploit this vul
- 7.5 High severity
get-func-name: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
get-func-name is a module to retrieve a function's name securely and consistently both in NodeJS and the browser. Versions prior to 2.0.1 are subject to a regular expression denial of service (redos) vulnerability which may lead to a denial of service when par
- 7.5 High severity
Linux Protection: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Certain WithSecure products allow Denial of Service via the aepack archive unpack handler. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15, WithSecure Server Security 15, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15, WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection 17 and later,
- 7.5 High severity
plone.rest: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
plone.rest allows users to use HTTP verbs such as GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. in Plone. Starting in the 2.x branch and prior to versions 2.0.1 and 3.0.1, when the `++api++` traverser is accidentally used multiple times in a url, handling it takes increasingly
- 7.5 High severity
Client Security: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Certain WithSecure products allow a remote crash of a scanning engine via unpacking of a PE file. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15, WithSecure Server Security 15, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15, WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protection 17 and
- 7.5 High severity
Client Security: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Certain WithSecure products allow a remote crash of a scanning engine via processing of an import struct in a PE file. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15, WithSecure Server Security 15, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15, WithSecure Elements Endpo
- 7.5 High severity
Client Security: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Certain WithSecure products allow a remote crash of a scanning engine via processing of a compressed file. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15, WithSecure Server Security 15, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15, WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protecti
- 7.5 High severity
Client Security: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Certain WithSecure products allow a remote crash of a scanning engine via decompression of crafted data files. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15, WithSecure Server Security 15, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15, WithSecure Elements Endpoint Prot
- 7.5 High severity
Client Security: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Certain WithSecure products allow a remote crash of a scanning engine via unpacking of crafted data files. This affects WithSecure Client Security 15, WithSecure Server Security 15, WithSecure Email and Server Security 15, WithSecure Elements Endpoint Protecti
- 7.5 High severity
glib: Deserialization of Untrusted Data
A flaw was found in glib, where the gvariant deserialization code is vulnerable to a denial of service introduced by additional input validation added to resolve CVE-2023-29499. The offset table validation may be very slow. This bug does not affect any release
- 7.5 High severity
Control de Ciber: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Cyber Control, in its 1.650 version, is affected by a vulnerability in the generation on the server of pop-up windows with the messages "PNTMEDIDAS", "PEDIR", "HAYDISCOA" or "SPOOLER". A complete denial of service can be achieved by sending multiple requests s
- 8.8 High severity
Control de Ciber: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Control de Ciber version 1.650, in the printing function. Sending a modified request by the attacker could cause a Buffer Overflow when the adminitrator tries to accept or delete the print query created by the request.
- 7.5 High severity
Control de Ciber: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Control de Ciber, in its 1.650 version, is affected by a Denial of Service condition through the version function. Sending a malicious request could cause the server to check if an unrecognized component is up to date, causing a memory failure error that shuts
- 8.1 High severity
Shenzhen Hichip Vision Technology Firmware: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Shenzhen Hichip Vision Technology IP Camera Firmware V11.4.8.1.1-20170926 has a denial of service vulnerability through sending a crafted multicast message in a local network.
- 7.5 High severity
smart_plug_10a: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An issue was discovered in Qubo Smart Plug 10A version HSP02_01_01_14_SYSTEM-10A, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via Wi-Fi deauthentication.
- 7.5 High severity
go-ethereum: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
go-ethereum (geth) is a golang execution layer implementation of the Ethereum protocol. A vulnerable node, can be made to consume unbounded amounts of memory when handling specially crafted p2p messages sent from an attacker node. The fix is included in geth v
- 7.5 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 8.2.12, 9.0.6, and 9.1.1, an attacker can use the `printf` SPL function to perform a denial of service (DoS) against the Splunk Enterprise instance.
- 7.5 High severity
Splunk Enterprise: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
In Splunk Enterprise versions lower than 9.0.6 and 8.2.12, a malicious actor can send a malformed security assertion markup language (SAML) request to the `/saml/acs` REST endpoint which can cause a denial of service through a crash or hang of the Splunk daemo
- 7.5 High severity
coraza: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
OWASP Coraza WAF is a golang modsecurity compatible web application firewall library. Due to the misuse of `log.Fatalf`, the application using coraza crashed after receiving crafted requests from attackers. The application will immediately crash after receivin
- 7.5 High severity
go-libp2p: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
libp2p is a networking stack and library modularized out of The IPFS Project, and bundled separately for other tools to use. In go-libp2p, by using signed peer records a malicious actor can store an arbitrary amount of data in a remote node’s memory. This memo