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-M7RW-P49V-XVR4
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-10-15 21:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 00:31Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: X Plugin). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.39 and prior, 8.4.2 and prior and 9.0.1 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-21196"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-10-15T20:15:07Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: X Plugin). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.39 and prior, 8.4.2 and prior and 9.0.1 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 6.5 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).",
"id": "GHSA-m7rw-p49v-xvr4",
"modified": "2025-11-04T00:31:34Z",
"published": "2024-10-15T21:30:37Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21196"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241025-0006"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2024.html"
}
],
"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:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-M824-P6MX-3CW8
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-10-15 12:01 – Updated: 2022-10-18 19:00In sensor driver, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local denial of service in kernel.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-39127"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400",
"CWE-787"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-10-14T19:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "In sensor driver, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local denial of service in kernel.",
"id": "GHSA-m824-p6mx-3cw8",
"modified": "2022-10-18T19:00:30Z",
"published": "2022-10-15T12:01:09Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39127"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.unisoc.com/en_us/secy/announcementDetail/1575654905820020738"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-M875-3XF6-MF78
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-03-30 22:58 – Updated: 2023-04-07 22:54There is a possible Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the unpoly-rails gem that implements the Unpoly server protocol for Rails applications.
Impact
This issues affects Rails applications that operate as an upstream of a load balancer's that uses passive health checks.
The unpoly-rails gem echoes the request URL as an X-Up-Location response header. By making a request with exceedingly long URLs (paths or query string), an attacker can cause unpoly-rails to write a exceedingly large response header.
If the response header is too large to be parsed by a load balancer downstream of the Rails application, it may cause the load balancer to remove the upstream from a load balancing group. This causes that application instance to become unavailable until a configured timeout is reached or until an active healthcheck succeeds.
Patches
The fixed release 2.7.2.2+ is available via RubyGems and GitHub.
Workarounds
If you cannot upgrade to a fixed release, several workarounds are available:
- Configure your load balancer to use active health checks, e.g. by periodically requesting a route with a known response that indicates healthiness.
- Configure your load balancer so the maximum size of response headers is at least twice the maximum size of a URL.
- Instead of changing your server configuration you may also configure your Rails application to delete redundant
X-Up-Locationheaders set by unpoly-rails:
```ruby class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
after_action :remove_redundant_up_location_header
private
def remove_redundant_up_location_header
if request.original_url == response.headers['X-Up-Location']
response.headers.delete('X-Up-Location')
end
end
end ```
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"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "RubyGems",
"name": "unpoly-rails"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.7.2.2"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-28846"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-03-30T22:58:38Z",
"nvd_published_at": "2023-03-30T20:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "There is a possible Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability in the unpoly-rails gem that implements the [Unpoly server protocol](https://unpoly.com/up.protocol) for Rails applications.\n\n### Impact\n\nThis issues affects Rails applications that operate as an upstream of a load balancer\u0027s that uses [passive health checks](https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-health-check/#passive-health-checks).\n\nThe [unpoly-rails](https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly-rails/) gem echoes the request URL as an `X-Up-Location` response header. By making a request with exceedingly long URLs (paths or query string), an attacker can cause unpoly-rails to write a exceedingly large response header.\n\nIf the response header is too large to be parsed by a load balancer downstream of the Rails application, it may cause the load balancer to remove the upstream from a load balancing group. This causes that application instance to become unavailable until a configured timeout is reached or until an active healthcheck succeeds.\n\n\n### Patches\n\nThe fixed release 2.7.2.2+ is available via RubyGems and GitHub.\n\n\n### Workarounds\n\nIf you cannot upgrade to a fixed release, several workarounds are available:\n\n- Configure your load balancer to use active health checks, e.g. by periodically requesting a route with a known response that indicates healthiness.\n- Configure your load balancer so the [maximum size of response headers](https://makandracards.com/operations/537537-nginx-proxy-buffer-tuning) is at least twice the [maximum size of a URL](https://tryhexadecimal.com/guides/http/414-request-uri-too-long).\n- Instead of changing your server configuration you may also configure your Rails application to delete redundant `X-Up-Location` headers set by unpoly-rails:\n \n ```ruby\n class ApplicationController \u003c ActionController::Base\n \n after_action :remove_redundant_up_location_header\n \n private\n \n def remove_redundant_up_location_header\n if request.original_url == response.headers[\u0027X-Up-Location\u0027]\n response.headers.delete(\u0027X-Up-Location\u0027)\n end\n end\n \n end\n ```",
"id": "GHSA-m875-3xf6-mf78",
"modified": "2023-04-07T22:54:15Z",
"published": "2023-03-30T22:58:38Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly-rails/security/advisories/GHSA-m875-3xf6-mf78"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28846"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly-rails/commit/cd9ad0007daceeb3b2354fdcab4f88350427bf16"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://docs.nginx.com/nginx/admin-guide/load-balancer/http-health-check/#passive-health-checks"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/unpoly-rails/CVE-2023-28846.yml"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/unpoly/unpoly-rails"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://makandracards.com/operations/537537-nginx-proxy-buffer-tuning"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://tryhexadecimal.com/guides/http/414-request-uri-too-long"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://unpoly.com/up.protocol"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
],
"summary": "unpoly-rails Denial of Service vulnerability"
}
GHSA-M87H-FQQJ-MH8J
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-04-22 00:24 – Updated: 2024-04-03 23:05A locally locally exploitable DOS vulnerability was found in pax-linux versions 2.6.32.33-test79.patch, 2.6.38-test3.patch, and 2.6.37.4-test14.patch. A bad bounds check in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown triggered by programs doing an mmap after a MAP_GROWSDOWN mmap will create an infinite loop condition without releasing the VM semaphore eventually leading to a system crash.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2011-1474"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2019-12-26T19:15:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "A locally locally exploitable DOS vulnerability was found in pax-linux versions 2.6.32.33-test79.patch, 2.6.38-test3.patch, and 2.6.37.4-test14.patch. A bad bounds check in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown triggered by programs doing an mmap after a MAP_GROWSDOWN mmap will create an infinite loop condition without releasing the VM semaphore eventually leading to a system crash.",
"id": "GHSA-m87h-fqqj-mh8j",
"modified": "2024-04-03T23:05:55Z",
"published": "2022-04-22T00:24:20Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1474"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-1474"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q1/579"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-M8CH-V4G3-CQ3G
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-11-27 12:30 – Updated: 2024-04-30 15:30A flaw was found in libnbd, due to a malicious Network Block Device (NBD), a protocol for accessing Block Devices such as hard disks over a Network. This issue may allow a malicious NBD server to cause a Denial of Service.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-5871"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400",
"CWE-617",
"CWE-671"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-11-27T12:15:07Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "A flaw was found in libnbd, due to a malicious Network Block Device (NBD), a protocol for accessing Block Devices such as hard disks over a Network. This issue may allow a malicious NBD server to cause a Denial of Service.",
"id": "GHSA-m8ch-v4g3-cq3g",
"modified": "2024-04-30T15:30:35Z",
"published": "2023-11-27T12:30:55Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5871"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2204"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5871"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247308"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.libguestfs.org/archives/list/guestfs@lists.libguestfs.org/thread/PFVUCMPFQUDC23JXSCUUPXIGDZ7XCFMD"
}
],
"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:L",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-M8CV-83CF-QCCX
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-06-05 00:30 – Updated: 2024-06-11 18:30Apport does not disable python crash handler before entering chroot
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-28657"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-06-04T22:15:10Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Apport does not disable python crash handler before entering chroot",
"id": "GHSA-m8cv-83cf-qccx",
"modified": "2024-06-11T18:30:42Z",
"published": "2024-06-05T00:30:48Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28657"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5427-1"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-28657"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-M8CV-CVMH-JG5W
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:24 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:24Internet Initiative Japan Inc. SEIL Series routers SEIL/X1 2.50 through 4.62, SEIL/X2 2.50 through 4.62, SEIL/B1 2.50 through 4.62, and SEIL/x86 Fuji 1.70 through 3.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and traffic consumption) via a large number of NTP requests within a short time, which causes unnecessary NTP responses to be sent.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2014-7255"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2014-12-05T17:59:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Internet Initiative Japan Inc. SEIL Series routers SEIL/X1 2.50 through 4.62, SEIL/X2 2.50 through 4.62, SEIL/B1 2.50 through 4.62, and SEIL/x86 Fuji 1.70 through 3.22 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and traffic consumption) via a large number of NTP requests within a short time, which causes unnecessary NTP responses to be sent.",
"id": "GHSA-m8cv-cvmh-jg5w",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:24:57Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:24:57Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7255"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN21907573/index.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2014/JVNDB-2014-000135.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.seil.jp/support/security/a01510.html"
}
],
"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-M8HG-FF53-QJ52
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:19 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:19An issue was discovered on Epson WorkForce WF-2861 10.48 LQ22I3, 10.51.LQ20I6 and 10.52.LQ17IA devices. They use SNMP to find certain devices on the network, but the default version is v2c, allowing an amplification attack.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-18960"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2018-12-24T17:29:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "An issue was discovered on Epson WorkForce WF-2861 10.48 LQ22I3, 10.51.LQ20I6 and 10.52.LQ17IA devices. They use SNMP to find certain devices on the network, but the default version is v2c, allowing an amplification attack.",
"id": "GHSA-m8hg-ff53-qj52",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:19:42Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:19:42Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-18960"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/epistemophilia/CVEs/blob/master/Epson-WorkForce-WF2861/CVE-2018-18960/poc-cve-2018-18960.py"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-M8Q6-HF5G-RG2M
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-02-17 03:30 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:31Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Security: Privileges). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.35 and prior and 8.2.0 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-20964"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-02-17T02:15:50Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL (component: Server: Security: Privileges). Supported versions that are affected are 8.0.35 and prior and 8.2.0 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized ability to cause a hang or frequently repeatable crash (complete DOS) of MySQL Server. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Availability impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).",
"id": "GHSA-m8q6-hf5g-rg2m",
"modified": "2025-11-04T21:31:09Z",
"published": "2024-02-17T03:30:30Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-20964"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240201-0003"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2024.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-M8VF-6QCV-248X
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:42 – Updated: 2022-05-28 00:00Crash in USB HID dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.2 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-22174"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2021-02-17T15:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Crash in USB HID dissector in Wireshark 3.4.0 to 3.4.2 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file",
"id": "GHSA-m8vf-6qcv-248x",
"modified": "2022-05-28T00:00:23Z",
"published": "2022-05-24T17:42:32Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22174"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22174.json"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/17165"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GND3PIQC3KZALR227V4YUMPKJBA5BZG4"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NYXLKQJ3D632XSG6VO7M4YFDAG6GRCLY"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-21"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2021-02.html"
}
],
"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"
}
]
}
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.