CWE-400
DiscouragedUncontrolled Resource Consumption
Abstraction: Class · Status: Draft
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
5412 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-JC5R-HF66-VMM4
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-04-05 21:30 – Updated: 2023-04-12 21:30A denial of service condition exists in the Prometheus server bundled with GitLab affecting all versions from 11.10 to 15.8.5, 15.9 to 15.9.4 and 15.10 to 15.10.1.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-1733"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-04-05T20:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "A denial of service condition exists in the Prometheus server bundled with GitLab affecting all versions from 11.10 to 15.8.5, 15.9 to 15.9.4 and 15.10 to 15.10.1.",
"id": "GHSA-jc5r-hf66-vmm4",
"modified": "2023-04-12T21:30:20Z",
"published": "2023-04-05T21:30:24Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1733"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/1723124"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-1733.json"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/392665"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-JC74-HGWV-GC6J
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 19:04 – Updated: 2022-05-24 19:04Uncontrolled resource consumption in some Intel(R) Thunderbolt(TM) controllers may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-12291"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2021-06-09T19:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Uncontrolled resource consumption in some Intel(R) Thunderbolt(TM) controllers may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.",
"id": "GHSA-jc74-hgwv-gc6j",
"modified": "2022-05-24T19:04:30Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T19:04:30Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12291"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/advisory/intel-sa-00401.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
GHSA-JC84-3G44-WF2Q
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2020-12-15 16:52 – Updated: 2020-12-15 16:52ecstatic have a denial of service vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to crash of an application.
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "npm",
"name": "ecstatic"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "4.1.3"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2019-10775"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-12-15T16:52:06Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "ecstatic have a denial of service vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to crash of an application.",
"id": "GHSA-jc84-3g44-wf2q",
"modified": "2020-12-15T16:52:06Z",
"published": "2020-12-15T16:52:17Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10775"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ECSTATIC-540354"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [],
"summary": "Denial of Service in ecstatic"
}
GHSA-JC8F-H9G4-2CF5
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-04 21:30 – Updated: 2026-02-05 15:31Water-Melon Melon commit 9df9292 and below is vulnerable to Denial of Service. The HTTP component doesn't have any maximum length. As a result, an excessive request header could cause a denial of service by consuming RAM memory.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-71031"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-02-04T20:16:04Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Water-Melon Melon commit 9df9292 and below is vulnerable to Denial of Service. The HTTP component doesn\u0027t have any maximum length. As a result, an excessive request header could cause a denial of service by consuming RAM memory.",
"id": "GHSA-jc8f-h9g4-2cf5",
"modified": "2026-02-05T15:31:14Z",
"published": "2026-02-04T21:30:32Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-71031"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://suphawith-phusanbai.gitbook.io/book-of-suphawith/my-exploits/cve-2025-71031-denial-of-service-in-melon-c-library"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://suphawith-phusanbai.gitbook.io/book-of-suphawith/my-exploits/denial-of-service-in-melon-c-library"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-JC8W-J2Q2-VWJX
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-19 21:30 – Updated: 2026-04-22 18:31ASP.NET Core Kestrel in Microsoft .NET 8.0 before 8.0.22 and .NET 9.0 before 9.0.11 allows a remote attacker to cause excessive CPU consumption by sending a crafted QUIC packet, because of an incorrect exit condition for HTTP/3 Encoder/Decoder stream processing.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-25667"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-03-19T19:16:19Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "ASP.NET Core Kestrel in Microsoft .NET 8.0 before 8.0.22 and .NET 9.0 before 9.0.11 allows a remote attacker to cause excessive CPU consumption by sending a crafted QUIC packet, because of an incorrect exit condition for HTTP/3 Encoder/Decoder stream processing.",
"id": "GHSA-jc8w-j2q2-vwjx",
"modified": "2026-04-22T18:31:37Z",
"published": "2026-03-19T21:30:23Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25667"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/commit/96ccc40a0e095424b19506e8268b9b1a3e23d6a7#diff-667d5b3693f93a0f706ab211428998b210862f9b885d917104d2013118312626"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/IsaJafarov/Kestrel-DoS"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/IsaJafarov/Q3Fuzz"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-JCFC-R24F-P75W
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-29 15:31 – Updated: 2025-10-29 15:31Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Progress MOVEit Transfer (AS2 module).This issue affects MOVEit Transfer: from 2025.0.0 before 2025.0.3, from 2024.1.0 before 2024.1.7, from 2023.1.0 before 2023.1.16.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-10932"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-10-29T15:15:41Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Progress MOVEit Transfer (AS2 module).This issue affects MOVEit Transfer: from 2025.0.0 before 2025.0.3, from 2024.1.0 before 2024.1.7, from 2023.1.0 before 2023.1.16.",
"id": "GHSA-jcfc-r24f-p75w",
"modified": "2025-10-29T15:31:57Z",
"published": "2025-10-29T15:31:57Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10932"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://community.progress.com/s/article/MOVEit-Transfer-Vulnerability-CVE-2025-10932-October-29-2025"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-JCJP-P87G-594H
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-11-02 15:30 – Updated: 2023-11-02 15:30Connections to external data sources, like e-mail autoconfiguration, were not terminated in case they hit a timeout, instead those connections were logged. Some connections use user-controlled endpoints, which could be malicious and attempt to keep the connection open for an extended period of time. As a result users were able to trigger large amount of egress network connections, possibly exhausting network pool resources and lock up legitimate requests. A new mechanism has been introduced to cancel external connections that might access user-controlled endpoints. No publicly available exploits are known.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-29046"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-11-02T14:15:11Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Connections to external data sources, like e-mail autoconfiguration, were not terminated in case they hit a timeout, instead those connections were logged. Some connections use user-controlled endpoints, which could be malicious and attempt to keep the connection open for an extended period of time. As a result users were able to trigger large amount of egress network connections, possibly exhausting network pool resources and lock up legitimate requests. A new mechanism has been introduced to cancel external connections that might access user-controlled endpoints. No publicly available exploits are known.\n\n",
"id": "GHSA-jcjp-p87g-594h",
"modified": "2023-11-02T15:30:25Z",
"published": "2023-11-02T15:30:25Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29046"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://documentation.open-xchange.com/appsuite/security/advisories/csaf/2023/oxas-adv-2023-0004.json"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://documentation.open-xchange.com/security/advisories/csaf/oxas-adv-2023-0004.json"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://software.open-xchange.com/products/appsuite/doc/Release_Notes_for_Patch_Release_6243_7.10.6_2023-08-01.pdf"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-JCVX-WGG4-CC84
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-01 17:52 – Updated: 2022-05-01 17:52AcroPDF.DLL in Adobe Reader 8.0, when accessed from Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, or Opera, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unspecified resource consumption) via a .pdf URL with an anchor identifier that begins with search= followed by many %n sequences, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6027 and CVE-2006-6236.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2007-1377"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2007-03-10T00:19:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "AcroPDF.DLL in Adobe Reader 8.0, when accessed from Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, or Opera, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unspecified resource consumption) via a .pdf URL with an anchor identifier that begins with search= followed by many %n sequences, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6027 and CVE-2006-6236.",
"id": "GHSA-jcvx-wgg4-cc84",
"modified": "2022-05-01T17:52:56Z",
"published": "2022-05-01T17:52:56Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-1377"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32896"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22856"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/data/vulnerabilities/exploits/22856.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
GHSA-JCWC-66Q9-7CJ9
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 01:22 – Updated: 2022-05-17 01:22Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in SYNO.Core.PortForwarding.Rules in Synology Router Manager (SRM) before 1.1.4-6509 allows remote authenticated attacker to exhaust the memory resources of the machine, causing a denial of service attack.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2017-12077"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2017-08-28T19:29:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in SYNO.Core.PortForwarding.Rules in Synology Router Manager (SRM) before 1.1.4-6509 allows remote authenticated attacker to exhaust the memory resources of the machine, causing a denial of service attack.",
"id": "GHSA-jcwc-66q9-7cj9",
"modified": "2022-05-17T01:22:10Z",
"published": "2022-05-17T01:22:10Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12077"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.synology.com/en-global/support/security/Synology_SA_17_49_SRM"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-JF74-VFWJ-V8H7
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-10-01 18:30 – Updated: 2025-10-01 18:30In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.0.1, 9.4.4, 9.3.6, and 9.2.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.108, 9.3.2408.118 and 9.2.2406.123, a user who holds a role that contains the high-privilege capability change_authentication, could send multiple LDAP bind requests to a specific internal endpoint, resulting in high server CPU usage, which could potentially lead to a denial of service (DoS) until the Splunk Enterprise instance is restarted. See https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.0/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/define-roles-on-the-splunk-platform-with-capabilities and https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.0/use-ldap-as-an-authentication-scheme/configure-ldap-with-splunk-web#cfe47e31_007f_460d_8b3d_8505ffc3f0dd__Configure_LDAP_with_Splunk_Web for more information.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-20370"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400",
"CWE-770"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-10-01T17:15:40Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "In Splunk Enterprise versions below 10.0.1, 9.4.4, 9.3.6, and 9.2.8, and Splunk Cloud Platform versions below 9.3.2411.108, 9.3.2408.118 and 9.2.2406.123, a user who holds a role that contains the high-privilege capability `change_authentication`, could send multiple LDAP bind requests to a specific internal endpoint, resulting in high server CPU usage, which could potentially lead to a denial of service (DoS) until the Splunk Enterprise instance is restarted. See https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.0/manage-splunk-platform-users-and-roles/define-roles-on-the-splunk-platform-with-capabilities and https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/administer/manage-users-and-security/10.0/use-ldap-as-an-authentication-scheme/configure-ldap-with-splunk-web#cfe47e31_007f_460d_8b3d_8505ffc3f0dd__Configure_LDAP_with_Splunk_Web for more information.",
"id": "GHSA-jf74-vfwj-v8h7",
"modified": "2025-10-01T18:30:39Z",
"published": "2025-10-01T18:30:39Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-20370"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://advisory.splunk.com/advisories/SVD-2025-1005"
}
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
Mitigation
Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place. The login application should be protected against DoS attacks as much as possible. Limiting the database access, perhaps by caching result sets, can help minimize the resources expended. To further limit the potential for a DoS attack, consider tracking the rate of requests received from users and blocking requests that exceed a defined rate threshold.
Mitigation
- Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either:
- The first of these solutions is an issue in itself though, since it may allow attackers to prevent the use of the system by a particular valid user. If the attacker impersonates the valid user, they may be able to prevent the user from accessing the server in question.
- The second solution is simply difficult to effectively institute -- and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply makes the attack require more resources on the part of the attacker.
- recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or
- uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed.
Mitigation
Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
Mitigation
Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.
CAPEC-147: XML Ping of the Death
An attacker initiates a resource depletion attack where a large number of small XML messages are delivered at a sufficiently rapid rate to cause a denial of service or crash of the target. Transactions such as repetitive SOAP transactions can deplete resources faster than a simple flooding attack because of the additional resources used by the SOAP protocol and the resources necessary to process SOAP messages. The transactions used are immaterial as long as they cause resource utilization on the target. In other words, this is a normal flooding attack augmented by using messages that will require extra processing on the target.
CAPEC-227: Sustained Client Engagement
An adversary attempts to deny legitimate users access to a resource by continually engaging a specific resource in an attempt to keep the resource tied up as long as possible. The adversary's primary goal is not to crash or flood the target, which would alert defenders; rather it is to repeatedly perform actions or abuse algorithmic flaws such that a given resource is tied up and not available to a legitimate user. By carefully crafting a requests that keep the resource engaged through what is seemingly benign requests, legitimate users are limited or completely denied access to the resource.
CAPEC-492: Regular Expression Exponential Blowup
An adversary may execute an attack on a program that uses a poor Regular Expression(Regex) implementation by choosing input that results in an extreme situation for the Regex. A typical extreme situation operates at exponential time compared to the input size. This is due to most implementations using a Nondeterministic Finite Automaton(NFA) state machine to be built by the Regex algorithm since NFA allows backtracking and thus more complex regular expressions.