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
- 7.7 High severity
1715-AENTR EtherNet/IP Adapter: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A denial-of-service security issue exists in the affected product and version. The security issue stems from a high number of requests sent to the web server. This could result in a web server crash however; this does not impact I/O control or communication .
- 7.5 High severity
Authlib is a Python library which builds OAuth and OpenID Connect servers.
Authlib is a Python library which builds OAuth and OpenID Connect servers. Prior to version 1.6.5, Authlib’s JOSE implementation accepts unbounded JWS/JWT header and signature segments. A remote attacker can craft a token whose base64url‑encoded header or sign
- 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 13.12 to 18.2.8, 18.3 to 18.3.4, and 18.4 to 18.4.2 that could make the GitLab instance unresponsive or severely degraded by sending crafted GraphQL queries requesting large repository
- 7.5 High severity
pdfmake: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Versions of the package pdfmake from 0.3.0-beta.1 and before 0.3.0-beta.17 are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via repeatedly redirect URL in file embedding. An attacker can cause the application to crash or become unresponsi
- 7.5 High severity
Enterprise Analytics: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
If a user tries to login but the provided credentials are incorrect a log is created. The data for this POST requests is not validated and it’s possible to send giant payloads which are then logged.
- 8.8 High severity
mantrachain: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
MANTRA is a purpose-built RWA Layer 1 Blockchain, capable of adherence to real world regulatory requirements. Versions 4.0.1 and below do not enforce the tx gas limit in its send hooks. Send hooks can spend more gas than what remains in tx, combined with recur
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Denial of Service issue in GraphQL endpoints in Gitlab EE/CE affecting all versions from 11.10 prior to 18.2.7, 18.3 prior to 18.3.3, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1 allows unauthenticated users to potentially bypass query complexity limits leading to resource exhaus
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.2 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1, that allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled CPU consumption, potentially leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) conditi
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1 that allows unauthenticated users to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) condition while uploading specifically crafted large JSON files.
- 7.5 High severity
rack: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to version 2.2.18, Rack::QueryParser enforces its params_limit only for parameters separated by &, while still splitting on both & and ;. As a result, attackers could use ; separators to bypass the parameter c
- 7.5 High severity
axios: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. When Axios starting in version 0.28.0 and prior to versions 0.30.2 and 1.12.0 runs on Node.js and is given a URL with the `data:` scheme, it does not perform HTTP. Instead, its Node http adapter
- 7.1 High severity
OTP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (ssh_sftp modules) allows Excessive Allocation, Flooding. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/ssh_sftpd.erl. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 b
- 7.1 High severity
stalwart: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Stalwart is a mail and collaboration server. Starting in version 0.12.0 and prior to version 0.13.3, a memory exhaustion vulnerability exists in Stalwart's CalDAV implementation that allows authenticated attackers to cause denial-of-service by triggering unbou
- 7.5 High severity
xgrammar: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
xgrammar is an open-source library for efficient, flexible, and portable structured generation. A grammar optimizer introduced in 0.1.23 processes large grammars (>100k characters) at very low rates, and can be used for DOS of model providers. This issue is fi
- 7.5 High severity
Ada Web Server: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Adacore Ada Web Server (AWS) before 25.2 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition due to improper handling of SSL handshakes during connection initialization. When a client initiates an HTTPS connection, the server performs the SSL handshake before
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.14.2 for…: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A flaw was found in Undertow where malformed client requests can trigger server-side stream resets without triggering abuse counters. This issue, referred to as the "MadeYouReset" attack, allows malicious clients to induce excessive server workload by repeated
- 8.2 High severity
rancher: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A vulnerability has been identified within Rancher Manager in which it did not enforce request body size limits on certain public (unauthenticated) and authenticated API endpoints. This allows a malicious user to exploit this by sending excessively large paylo
- 7.5 High severity
Vault: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A malicious user may submit a specially-crafted complex payload that otherwise meets the default request size limit which results in excessive memory and CPU consumption of Vault. This may lead to a timeout in Vault’s auditing subroutine, potentially resulting
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 14.1 before 18.1.5, 18.2 before 18.2.5, and 18.3 before 18.3.1 that that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition aff
- 7.5 High severity
jsPDF is a library to generate PDFs in JavaScript.
jsPDF is a library to generate PDFs in JavaScript. Prior to 3.0.2, user control of the first argument of the addImage method results in CPU utilization and denial of service. If given the possibility to pass unsanitized image data or URLs to the addImage metho
- 7.5 High severity
WebSphere Application Server Liberty: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty 18.0.0.2 through 25.0.0.8 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
pypdf: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. Prior to version 6.0.0, an attacker can craft a PDF which leads to the RAM being exhausted. This requires just reading the file if a series of FlateDecode filters is used on a malicious cross-reference s
- 7.5 High severity
GitLab: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 8.14 before 18.0.6, 18.1 before 18.1.4, and 18.2 before 18.2.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted payload
- 7.5 High severity
netty: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework. Prior to versions 4.1.124.Final and 4.2.4.Final, Netty is vulnerable to MadeYouReset DDoS. This is a logical vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, that uses malformed HTTP/2 control frames i
- 8.7 High severity
Vision-ui: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Vision UI is a collection of enterprise-grade, dependency-free modules for modern web projects. In versions 1.4.0 and below, the generateSecureId and getSecureRandomInt functions in security-kit versions prior to 3.5.0 (packaged in Vision UI 1.4.0 and below) a
- 7.5 High severity
mastodon: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPub Mastodon which facilitates LDAP configuration for authentication. In versions 3.1.5 through 4.2.24, 4.3.0 through 4.3.11 and 4.4.0 through 4.4.3, Mastodon's rate-limiting system has a c
- 7.5 High severity
suricata: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Suricata is a network IDS, IPS and NSM engine developed by the OISF (Open Information Security Foundation) and the Suricata community. In versions 7.0.10 and below and 8.0.0-beta1 through 8.0.0-rc1, mishandling of data on HTTP2 stream 0 can lead to uncontrolle
- 7.5 High severity
Rax30 Firmware: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
In Netgear RAX30 V1.0.10.94_3, the USERLIMIT_GLOBAL option is set to 0 in multiple bftpd-related configuration files. This can cause DoS attacks when unlimited users are connected.
- 7.5 High severity
chall-manager: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Chall-Manager is a platform-agnostic system able to start Challenges on Demand of a player. The HTTP Gateway processes headers, but with no timeout set. With a slow loris attack, an attacker could cause Denial of Service (DoS). Exploitation does not require au
- 7.5 High severity
cpp-httplib: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.23.0, incoming requests using Transfer-Encoding: chunked in the header can allocate memory arbitrarily in the server, potentially leading to its exhaustion. This vulne
- 8.8 High severity
cpp-httplib: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests
cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. Prior to 0.20.1, cpp-httplib does not have a limit for a unique line, permitting an attacker to explore this to allocate memory arbitrarily. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.20.1
- 7.5 High severity
WeGIA: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
WeGIA is a web manager for charitable institutions. The Wegia server has a vulnerability that allows excessively long HTTP GET requests to a specific URL. This issue arises from the lack of validation for the length of the fid parameter. Tests confirmed that t
- 7.5 High severity
WeGIA: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
WeGIA is a web manager for charitable institutions. The Wegia server has a vulnerability that allows excessively long HTTP GET requests to a specific URL. This issue arises from the lack of validation for the length of the errorstr parameter. Tests confirmed t
- 7.5 High severity
redis: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Redis is an open source, in-memory database that persists on disk. An unauthenticated connection can cause repeated IP protocol errors, leading to client starvation and, ultimately, a denial of service. This vulnerability is fixed in 8.0.3, 7.4.5, 7.2.10, and
- 8.8 High severity
Dashcam Q9: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A vulnerability has been found in IROAD Dashcam Q9 up to 20250624 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component MFA Pairing Request Handler. The manipulation leads to allocation of resources. The att
- 7.5 High severity
Relion 670/650 and SAM600-IO: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A denial-of-service vulnerability due to improper prioritization of network traffic over protection mechanism exists in Relion 670/650 and SAM600-IO series device that if exploited could potentially cause critical functions like LDCM (Line Distance Communicati
- 8.8 High severity
NeKernal is a free and open-source operating system stack.
NeKernal is a free and open-source operating system stack. Prior to version 0.0.3, there are several memory safety issues that can lead to memory corruption, disk image corruption, denial of service, and potential code execution. These issues stem from uncheck
- 7.5 High severity
InfoSphere Information Server: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
IBM InfoSphere Information Server 11.7.0.0 through 11.7.1.6 could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service due to insufficient validation of incoming request resources.
- 7.5 High severity
quiche: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Impact Cloudflare quiche was discovered to be vulnerable to incorrect congestion window growth, which could cause it to send data at a rate faster than the path might actually support. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability by first c
- 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 11.0.7, from 10.1.0-M1 through 10.1.41, from 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.105. The following versions were EOL at the time the