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
BIG-IP: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
When a SIP profile is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed traffic can cause the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated.
- 7.5 High severity
bandit: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion. The chunked clause of 'Elixir.Bandit.HTTP1.Socket':read_data/2 in lib/bandit/http1/socket.ex ignores the
- 7.5 High severity
PhpSpreadsheet: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
PhpSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Prior to 1.30.4, 2.1.16, 2.4.5, 3.10.5, and 5.7.0, the XLSX reader's ColumnAndRowAttributes::readRowAttributes() method reads row numbers from XML attributes without validating the
- 7.5 High severity
PhpSpreadsheet: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
PhpSpreadsheet is a pure PHP library for reading and writing spreadsheet files. Prior to 1.30.4, 2.1.16, 2.4.5, 3.10.5, and 5.7.0, the SpreadsheetML XML reader (Reader\Xml) does not validate the ss:Index row attribute against the maximum allowed row count (Add
- 7.5 High severity
basic-ftp: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
basic-ftp is an FTP client for Node.js. Prior to 5.3.1, basic-ftp is vulnerable to client-side denial of service when parsing FTP control-channel multiline responses. A malicious or compromised FTP server can send an unterminated multiline response during the
- 7.5 High severity
HPE Aruba Networking Wireless Operating System…: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A vulnerability in a network management service of AOS-8 Operating System could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted network packets to the affected device, potentially resulting in a denial-of-ser
- 7.5 High severity
Apache Tomcat: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. This issue affects Apache Tomcat: from 11.0.0-M1 through 11.0.21, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.54, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.117. Older, unsupported versions may also be affect
- 7.5 High severity
SIMATIC CN 4100: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC CN 4100 (All versions < V5.0). The affected application is susceptible to resource exhaustion when subjected to high volume of TCP SYN packets This could allow an attacker to render the service unavailable and cau
- 7.5 High severity
argo-workflows: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Argo Workflows is an open source container-native workflow engine for orchestrating parallel jobs on Kubernetes. Prior to versions 3.7.14 and 4.0.5, the Webhook Interceptor loads the entire request body into memory before authenticating the request or verifyin
- 7.5 High severity
russh: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Prior to version 0.60.1, a pre-authentication denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the server's keyboard-interactive authentication handler. A malicious client can crash any russh-based server that implements k
- 8.7 High severity
zebra: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to version 4.4.0, a composite denial-of-service vulnerability in Zebra's block discovery pipeline allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently halt all new block discovery on a targeted node. Th
- 7.5 High severity
absinthe: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in absinthe-graphql absinthe allows unauthenticated denial of service via atom table exhaustion when parsing attacker-controlled GraphQL SDL. Multiple Blueprint.Draft.convert/2 implementations
- 7.8 High severity
Linux: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: strictly check for maximum number of actions The maximum number of flowtable hardware offload actions in IPv6 is: * ethernet mangling (4 payload actions, 2 for each ether
- 7.5 High severity
Enterprise Server: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitHub Enterprise Server that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause service disruption by sending crafted requests with deeply nested JSON payloads to an unauthenticated API endpoint. The endpoint pars
- 8.3 High severity
DivvyDrive: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Improperly controlled modification of Dynamically-Determined object attributes, Allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in DivvyDrive Information Technologies Inc. DivvyDrive allows Excessive Allocation, Flooding. This issue affects
- 7.1 High severity
monetr: Server-Side Request Forgery
monetr is a budgeting application for recurring expenses. Prior to version 1.12.5, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in monetr's Lunch Flow integration allowed any authenticated user on a self-hosted instance to cause the monetr server to issu
- 7.5 High severity
coredns: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins. In versions prior to 1.14.3, the DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ) server can be driven into unbounded goroutine and memory growth by a remote client that opens many QUIC streams and sends only 1 byte per stream. When the worker
- 8.7 High severity
phoenix: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in phoenixframework phoenix allows a denial of service via the long-poll transport's NDJSON body handling. In 'Elixir.Phoenix.Transports.LongPoll':publish/4, when a POST request is received wit
- 7.3 High severity
Apache HTTP Server: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server's mod_md via OCSP response data. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server: from 2.4.30 through 2.4.66. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.67, which fixes the iss
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
OpenClaw versions 2026.4.9 before 2026.4.10 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the voice-call realtime WebSocket path that accepts oversized frames without proper validation. Remote attackers can send oversized WebSocket frames to cause service unava
- 7.5 High severity
Boundary: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise (“Boundary”) workers are vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition during node enrollment TLS handshakes. An attacker with network access to the worker authentication listener may open a connection and delay
- 7.5 High severity
@fastify/accepts-serializer: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
@fastify/accepts-serializer cached serializer-selection results keyed by the request Accept header without a size limit or eviction policy. A remote unauthenticated client could send many distinct but matching Accept header variants to make the cache grow unbo
- 7.5 High severity
n8n: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
n8n is an open source workflow automation platform. Prior to versions 1.123.32, 2.17.4, and 2.18.1, the MCP OAuth client registration endpoint accepted unauthenticated requests and stored client data without adequate resource controls. An unauthenticated remot
- 7.5 High severity
prometheus: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system and time series database. Prior to versions 3.5.3 and 3.11.3, the remote read endpoint (/api/v1/read) does not validate the declared decoded length in a snappy-compressed request body before allocating memory. An
- 7.5 High severity
Apache OpenNLP: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
OOM Denial of Service via Unbounded Array Allocation in Apache OpenNLP AbstractModelReader Versions Affected: before 1.9.5 before 2.5.9 before 3.0.0-M3 Description: The AbstractModelReader methods getOutcomes(), getOutcomePatterns(), and getPredicates() each r
- 8.7 High severity
bandit: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion. The fragment reassembly path in 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.Connection':handle_frame/3 in lib/bandit/websoc
- 8.2 High severity
bandit: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in mtrudel bandit allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via memory exhaustion when WebSocket permessage-deflate compression is enabled. 'Elixir.Bandit.WebSocket.PerMessageDeflate':inf
- 7.5 High severity
Prosody: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An issue was discovered in Prosody before 0.12.6 and 1.0.0 through 13.0.0 before 13.0.5. A Denial of Service can occur via memory exhaustion caused by XML parsing resource amplification from unauthenticated connections.
- 7.5 High severity
CryptPad: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CryptPad 2025.3.1 allows unbounded WebSocket frame flood. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can significantly degrade or deny service for all users of a CryptPad instance. Fixed in 2026.2.2.
- 7.5 High severity
pgjdbc: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
pgjdbc is an open source postgresql JDBC Driver. From version 42.2.0 to before version 42.7.11, pgjdbc is vulnerable to a client-side denial of service during SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication. A malicious server can instruct the driver to perform SCRAM authenticat
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
OpenClaw before 2026.3.31 contains an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-32062 where the voice-call component parses large WebSocket frames before start validation. Remote attackers can send oversized pre-start WebSocket frames to cause resource consumption and denia
- 7.5 High severity
OpenClaw: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
OpenClaw before 2026.3.28 accepts unbounded concurrent unauthenticated WebSocket upgrades without pre-authentication budget allocation. Unauthenticated network attackers can exhaust socket and worker capacity to disrupt WebSocket availability for legitimate cl
- 7.5 High severity
plug_cowboy: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in elixir-plug plug_cowboy allows unauthenticated remote denial of service via atom table exhaustion. Plug.Cowboy.Conn.conn/1 in lib/plug/cowboy/conn.ex calls String.to_atom/1 on the value retu
- 7.5 High severity
axios: Uncontrolled Recursion
Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Prior to 1.15.1 and 0.31.1, toFormData recursively walks nested objects with no depth limit, so a deeply nested value passed as request data crashes the Node.js process with a RangeError. This v
- 7.5 High severity
Tempo: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Tempo queries with large limits can cause large memory allocations which can impact the availability of the service, depending on its deployment strategy. Mitigation can be done by setting max_result_limit in the search config, e.g. to 262144 (2^18). Alternati
- 7.5 High severity
basic-ftp: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
basic-ftp is an FTP client for Node.js. Versions prior to 5.3.0 are vulnerable to denial of service through unbounded memory growth while processing directory listings from a remote FTP server. A malicious or compromised server can send an extremely large or n
- 8.2 High severity
opensource-socialnetwork: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Open Source Social Network (OSSN) is open-source social networking software developed in PHP. Versions prior to 9.0 are vulnerable to resource exhaustion. An attacker can upload a specially crafted image with extreme pixel dimensions (e.g., $10000 \times 10000
- 7.5 High severity
DNSdist: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A client can trigger excessive memory allocation by generating a lot of errors responses over a single DoQ and DoH3 connection, as some resources were not properly released until the end of the connection.
- 7.5 High severity
DNSdist: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A client can trigger excessive memory allocation by generating a lot of queries that are routed to an overloaded DoH backend, causing queries to accumulate into a buffer that will not be released until the end of the connection.
- 7.5 High severity
DNSdist: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An attacker can create a large number of concurrent DoQ or DoH3 connections, causing unlimited memory allocation in DNSdist and leading to a denial of service. DOQ and DoH3 are disabled by default.