Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CWE-770
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.
We track 1,118 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 7.7. 2 have been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Requirements: Clearly specify the minimum and maximum expectations for capabilities, and dictate which behaviors are acceptable when resource allocation reaches limits.
- 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.
- 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.
- Architecture and Design: Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
Latest Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerabilities
- 7.5 High severity
FreeRDP: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
FreeRDP before 3.29.0 fails to enforce the RESPONSE_SIZE_LIMIT when processing Transfer-Encoding: chunked HTTP responses in http_response_recv_body(). Attackers controlling a malicious RD Gateway endpoint can send oversized chunked response bodies to exhaust c
- 7.5 High severity
mcp-toolbox: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An allocation of resources without limits vulnerability in the HTTP handler component of Google mcp-toolbox versions up to and including 1.4.0 allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS). The /mcp endpoint handler reads incoming paylo
- 7.5 High severity
Enterprise Build of Quarkus: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
IBM Enterprise Build of Quarkus 3.27.1 through 3.27.4.SP2, and 3.33.1 through 3.33.2.SP2 Quarkus REST could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to unbounded accumulation of multipart MIME part-header bytes.
- 7.5 High severity
WebSphere Application Server - Liberty: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty 17.0.0.3 through 26.0.0.7 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by sending a specially crafted request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the server to consume memory resources.
- 7.5 High severity
OliveTin: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
OliveTin gives access to predefined shell commands from a web interface. From 3000.0.0 until 3000.17.0, the service/internal/auth/otoauth2/restapi_auth_oauth2.go OAuth2 login handler stores per-login state in the registeredStates map on every /oauth/login requ
- 7.5 High severity
ruby-sdk: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
MCP Ruby SDK is the official Ruby SDK for Model Context Protocol servers and clients. Prior to 0.23.0, MCP::Server::Transports::StreamableHTTPTransport in the mcp gem reads and parses an entire JSON-RPC POST body without a size limit, allowing an unauthenticat
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.8 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service due to insufficient
- 7.5 High severity
netty: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to versions 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, `HttpContentEncoder` (the superclass of the production handler `HttpContentCompressor`) maintains a per-channel `ArrayDeque<CharSequence>` n
- 7.5 High severity
td: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
gotd/td is a T Telegram MTProto API client in Go. Prior to 0.145.1, proto.UnencryptedMessage.Decode in proto/unencrypted_message.go read attacker controlled dataLen from an unauthenticated MTProto unencrypted packet and allocated make([]byte, dataLen) before c
- 8.6 High severity
QTINeon: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
QTI Neon is a minimal, game-agnostic, relay-based UDP multiplayer protocol library. In version 1.0.0, the relay's handleReconnectRequest forwards RECONNECT_REQUEST packets to the host without bounding them, so an unauthenticated client can drive relay-to-host
- 7.5 High severity
gopacket: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
gopacket provides packet processing capabilities for Go. In version 1.6.0 and earlier, the Diameter AVP decoder computes an AVP data length by subtracting a fixed header size from an attacker-controlled AVP Length field, so a vendor-flagged AVP whose Length is
- 7.5 High severity
gopacket: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
gopacket provides packet processing capabilities for Go. In version 1.6.0 and earlier, the sFlow ExtendedGatewayFlow decoder in layers/sflow.go reads an attacker-controlled 32-bit community count and AS path member count and sizes a slice allocation from those
- 7.5 High severity
panel: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Pterodactyl is a free, open-source game server management panel. From 1.7.0 until 1.13.0, the authentication rate limiter defined in RouteServiceProvider::configureRateLimiting() applied a single global bucket to the login and two-factor checkpoint endpoints i
- 8.2 High severity
DCGM: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
NVIDIA DCGM Exporter for all platforms contains a vulnerability in the /debug/pprof endpoints, where an attacker could cause uncontrolled resource consumption by submitting concurrent unauthenticated profiling requests. A successful exploit of this vulnerabili
- 8.7 High severity
cowlib: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of resources without limits vulnerability in ninenines cowlib allows an unauthenticated remote HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 peer to exhaust memory on the vulnerable server (or client) and cause a denial of service. The HPACK and QPACK prefixed-integer decoder c
- 7.5 High severity
OTP: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of resources without limits in Erlang/OTP public_key certificate path validation allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause denial of service by sending a crafted X.509 certificate chain during the TLS handshake. During RFC 5280 policy proces
- 7.5 High severity
OTP: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts (epmd) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (epmd) via connection slot exhaustion. The do_accept function in erts/epmd/src/
- 7.5 High severity
Apache Thrift: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Thrift Rust bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the issue.
- 7.5 High severity
Apache Thrift: Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity, Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Thrift Node.js bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the issue
- 7.5 High severity
Apache Thrift: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Thrift Java bindings. This issue affects Apache Thrift: from 0.19.0 before 0.24.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.24.0, which fixes the issue.
- 7.5 High severity
quinn: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Quinn is a pure-Rust, async-compatible implementation of the IETF QUIC transport protocol. Starting in version 0.1.0 and prior to version 0.11.15, the `Assembler` component that assembles unordered stream fragments into consecutive chunks of the stream incurs
- 7.5 High severity
aws-smithy-http-server: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Missing connection and header-read timeouts and the absence of a concurrent-connection cap in the default serve() path of Amazon aws-smithy-http-server might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by opening many connections and sending partial re
- 7.5 High severity
brace-expansion: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
brace-expansion through 5.0.7 is vulnerable to denial of service via memory exhaustion. The expand() function limits the number of results with a max option (default 100,000) but does not bound the length of each result string. By chaining multiple brace group
- 7.5 High severity
BIND 9: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A DNSSEC validating resolver that is under a random subdomain attack against a DNSSEC-signed zone can suffer from runaway memory usage. The attacker needs to be able to send queries faster than the resolver can perform validation. The increased memory usage ca
- 7.5 High severity
netty: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, Netty's SPDY SETTINGS decoder accepts a peer-declared SETTINGS entry count up to the 24-bit frame-length limit and materializes e
- 7.5 High severity
mailpit: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Mailpit is an email testing tool and API for developers. Prior to version 1.30.0, the Mailpit SMTP server has a Server.MaxSize int field that controls the maximum allowed DATA payload size, but the field is never assigned anywhere outside test code, leaving it
- 7.5 High severity
surrealdb: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
SurrealDB versions before 3.1.0 fail to apply the SURREAL_WEBSOCKET_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE limit to anonymous /sql WebSocket connections, allowing attackers to buffer unbounded frames in the per-connection read buffer. Attackers can stream WebSocket frames larger th
- 7.5 High severity
dd-trace-go: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Datadog dd-trace-go is a Go client library for Datadog application performance monitoring, profiling, and security monitoring. Prior to 2.8.1, Datadog tracing libraries that implement W3C baggage propagation parse incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcin
- 7.5 High severity
dd-trace-js: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
dd-trace is the Datadog APM client for Node.js. Prior to 5.100.0, W3C baggage propagation in packages/dd-trace/src/baggage.js and packages/dd-trace/src/opentracing/propagation/text_map.js parsed incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_
- 7.5 High severity
dd-trace-py: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Datadog dd-trace-py is the Datadog Python APM client. Prior to 4.8.2, Datadog tracing libraries that implement W3C baggage propagation parse incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS or DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_BYTES limits on the
- 7.5 High severity
netty: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to 4.1.136.Final and 4.2.16.Final, io.netty.handler.codec.stomp.StompSubframeDecoder fails to limit the total number of headers or their cumulative size per frame,
- 7.5 High severity
websocket-driver-ruby: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.1, when websocket-driver is used to implement a WebSocket server on top of a TCP server using WebSocket::Driver.server() or to complement a WebSocket client, a peer can make a si
- 7.5 High severity
websocket-driver-ruby: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
websocket-driver is a WebSocket protocol handler with pluggable I/O. Prior to 0.8.1, draft versions of the WebSocket protocol in websocket-driver include a length header that allows an arbitrarily large integer to be encoded as bytes with the high bit set, and
- 7.5 High severity
timestamp-authority: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Sigstore Timestamp Authority is a service for issuing RFC 3161 timestamps. Prior to 2.1.0, the global wrapMetrics middleware records raw HTTP request path r.URL.Path and raw HTTP request method r.Method as Prometheus labels for latency and request count metric
- 7.5 High severity
dd-trace-dotnet: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Datadog .NET Tracer is a client library for Datadog APM for .NET applications. Prior to 3.43.0, Datadog tracing libraries that implement W3C baggage propagation parse incoming baggage HTTP headers without enforcing DD_TRACE_BAGGAGE_MAX_ITEMS or DD_TRACE_BAGGAG
- 7.5 High severity
h2o: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 9265bdd, there is an HTTP/2 state amplification issue that combines HPACK decompression amplification with Slowloris-style stream stalling. Amplified decoded header state can b
- 7.5 High severity
h2o: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 6b5370d, h2o is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack when calling alloca under certain conditions. When serving static files, h2o builds the file path on stack, by calling
- 7.5 High severity
quicly: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Quicly is an IETF QUIC protocol implementation intended primarily for use within the H2O HTTP server. Prior to commit 8b178e6, an adversarial peer could send a STREAM frame carrying just one byte at the largest offset being permitted to obtain additional flow
- 7.5 High severity
Loki: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Loki queries with large limits can cause large memory allocations which can impact the availability of the service, depending on its deployment strategy.
- 7.5 High severity
Feast Feature Server: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A vulnerability was identified in the Feast Feature Server's `/ws/chat` endpoint that allows remote attackers to establish persistent WebSocket connections without any authentication. By opening a large number of simultaneous connections, an attacker can exhau