CWE-770
AllowedAllocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Abstraction: Base · Status: Incomplete
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.
3025 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-V3R3-642V-RQJ8
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-07-23 15:31 – Updated: 2024-07-31 12:31A malicious client can send many DNS messages over TCP, potentially causing the server to become unstable while the attack is in progress. The server may recover after the attack ceases. Use of ACLs will not mitigate the attack. This issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.1 through 9.18.27, 9.19.0 through 9.19.24, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.27-S1.
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"nvd_published_at": "2024-07-23T15:15:03Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "A malicious client can send many DNS messages over TCP, potentially causing the server to become unstable while the attack is in progress. The server may recover after the attack ceases. Use of ACLs will not mitigate the attack. \nThis issue affects BIND 9 versions 9.18.1 through 9.18.27, 9.19.0 through 9.19.24, and 9.18.11-S1 through 9.18.27-S1.",
"id": "GHSA-v3r3-642v-rqj8",
"modified": "2024-07-31T12:31:46Z",
"published": "2024-07-23T15:31:09Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0760"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://kb.isc.org/docs/cve-2024-0760"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/23/1"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/31/2"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-V42F-HQ78-8C5M
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-11-23 09:30 – Updated: 2022-11-26 20:03A denial-of-service vulnerability in the Mattermost allows an authenticated user to crash the server via multiple requests to one of the API endpoints which could fetch a large amount of data.
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"github_reviewed_at": "2022-11-23T22:20:17Z",
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"details": "A denial-of-service vulnerability in the Mattermost allows an authenticated user to crash the server via multiple requests to one of the API endpoints which could fetch a large amount of data.",
"id": "GHSA-v42f-hq78-8c5m",
"modified": "2022-11-26T20:03:44Z",
"published": "2022-11-23T09:30:24Z",
"references": [
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"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4045"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://mattermost.com/security-updates"
},
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GHSA-V488-9CVJ-5MX7
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-02-12 15:32 – Updated: 2025-02-12 15:32A denial of service vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 14.1 prior to 17.6.5, 17.7 prior to 17.7.4, and 17.8 prior to 17.8.2 allows an attacker to impact the availability of GitLab via unbounded symbol creation via the scopes parameter in a Personal Access Token.
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"nvd_published_at": "2025-02-12T15:15:12Z",
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"details": "A denial of service vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 14.1 prior to 17.6.5, 17.7 prior to 17.7.4, and 17.8 prior to 17.8.2 allows an attacker to impact the availability of GitLab via unbounded symbol creation via the scopes parameter in a Personal Access Token.",
"id": "GHSA-v488-9cvj-5mx7",
"modified": "2025-02-12T15:32:02Z",
"published": "2025-02-12T15:32:02Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12379"
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/2871791"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/508559"
}
],
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"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-V4J3-XHWP-3V3W
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-10 21:31 – Updated: 2026-02-10 21:31Complex queries can cause excessive memory usage in MongoDB Query Planner resulting in an Out-Of-Memory Crash.
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"CVE-2026-1850"
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"nvd_published_at": "2026-02-10T19:15:51Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Complex queries can cause excessive memory usage in MongoDB Query Planner resulting in an Out-Of-Memory Crash.",
"id": "GHSA-v4j3-xhwp-3v3w",
"modified": "2026-02-10T21:31:29Z",
"published": "2026-02-10T21:31:29Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1850"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-114126"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
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"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
]
}
GHSA-V4J9-FCWH-HM62
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:34 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:34A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor and Cisco UCS Director could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the size or total amount of resources allowed via the web interface. An attacker who has valid credentials for the application could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted or malformed HTTP request to the web interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause oversubscription of system resources or cause a component to become unresponsive, resulting in a DoS condition.
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"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-15404"
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"nvd_published_at": "2018-10-05T14:29:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC) Supervisor and Cisco UCS Director could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected system. The vulnerability is due to insufficient restrictions on the size or total amount of resources allowed via the web interface. An attacker who has valid credentials for the application could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted or malformed HTTP request to the web interface. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause oversubscription of system resources or cause a component to become unresponsive, resulting in a DoS condition.",
"id": "GHSA-v4j9-fcwh-hm62",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:34:19Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:34:19Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15404"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20181003-imcs-ucsd-dos"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-V4JF-WWP4-588Q
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-26 15:30 – Updated: 2026-03-26 15:30A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the polkit-agent-helper-1 setuid binary via standard input (stdin). This unbounded input can lead to an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the system.
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"CVE-2026-4897"
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"nvd_published_at": "2026-03-26T15:16:43Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "A flaw was found in polkit. A local user can exploit this by providing a specially crafted, excessively long input to the `polkit-agent-helper-1` setuid binary via standard input (stdin). This unbounded input can lead to an out-of-memory (OOM) condition, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the system.",
"id": "GHSA-v4jf-wwp4-588q",
"modified": "2026-03-26T15:30:41Z",
"published": "2026-03-26T15:30:41Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-4897"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-4897"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2451739"
}
],
"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-V52Q-48V6-RMJ4
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-09-26 12:31 – Updated: 2025-09-26 12:31An 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) condition while using specific GraphQL queries.
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"CVE-2025-11042"
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"nvd_published_at": "2025-09-26T10:15:47Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
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"details": "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) condition while using specific GraphQL queries.",
"id": "GHSA-v52q-48v6-rmj4",
"modified": "2025-09-26T12:31:08Z",
"published": "2025-09-26T12:31:07Z",
"references": [
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"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-11042"
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/550374"
}
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"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
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}
GHSA-V52W-28XH-V562
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-19 20:47 – Updated: 2026-06-19 20:47Kozou compiles a PostgreSQL schema into an Admin UI, a REST API, and an MCP server. Several hardening gaps in the bundled HTTP surfaces and the scaffolded dev stack are fixed in 1.8.1.
Issues
-
MCP HTTP server lacked DNS-rebinding protection. The Streamable HTTP transport is unauthenticated and loopback by default. Without
Host/Originvalidation, a malicious web page in the operator's browser could rebind a hostname it controls to the loopback address and drive the MCP endpoint — reading schema metadata, or (when the opt-incallexecution tool is enabled) executing exposed functions as the execution role. -
Unbounded request-body buffering (DoS). Both the MCP HTTP server and the in-house REST server read the entire request body into memory with no size limit, so a reachable client could drive the process toward memory exhaustion.
-
Read requests ran in a read/write transaction. The shared role-transaction envelope opened every request with a plain
BEGIN, so aGETran read/write. ASELECTthat reaches a volatile function or a writable /INSTEAD-triggered view could perform a write that then commits — the "a GET only reads" contract was left to the serving role's grants rather than enforced. -
No-auth dev surfaces published on all interfaces by default. The scaffolded
docker-compose.yml(and the quickstart) published the unauthenticated Admin UI and MCP HTTP server — and the default-credential demo database — on every host interface, and the config defaulted those binds to0.0.0.0.
What changed in 1.8.1
- DNS-rebinding guard (MCP HTTP): the server validates the
Hostheader (and a presentOrigin) against an allowlist before handling any request, on every route. Matching is on the hostname; loopback names are always accepted and an operator can add hosts via configuration. A browser cannot forgeHost/Origin, so this closes the rebinding vector. (This is a browser-rebinding defence; network reachability of an unauthenticated server must still be constrained by the network — see workarounds.) - Request-body size cap: both HTTP servers reject an over-large declared
Content-Length(413) and enforce the limit while streaming, so a chunked /Content-Length-less body cannot grow unbounded. A non-JSONContent-Typeon a body is rejected with 415. The cap is configurable. - Read-only read transactions: read methods (
GET) now run in aREAD ONLYtransaction, so the database refuses any write for the duration of the request regardless of the role's grants. - Loopback-by-default network posture: the Admin UI and MCP HTTP server now bind loopback by default; the bundled compose files publish every host port (Admin UI, MCP, database) on
127.0.0.1only, while the container binds all interfaces internally so the loopback mapping still works. Operators opt into a broader bind explicitly.
Impact
The MCP HTTP server's exposure is greatest when the opt-in call execution tool is enabled and/or the server is reachable beyond loopback. The read/write-transaction issue has effect only when the schema exposes a read path that can write (a volatile-function-backed column or a writable/INSTEAD-triggered view) and the serving role holds write grants. The all-interface publish affected anyone who ran the scaffolded docker compose up on a host reachable from an untrusted network. Requests run under SET LOCAL ROLE, so PostgreSQL still enforces grants/RLS at runtime; these are defense-in-depth and read-contract hardening.
Affected / patched
- npm packages
kozou,@kozou/api,@kozou/mcp,@kozou/core(and the lockstep-versioned siblings): affected<= 1.8.0, patched 1.8.1. - Container image
ghcr.io/kozou-dev/kozou: patched at tagv1.8.1.
Workarounds (if you cannot upgrade immediately)
- Bind the Admin UI and MCP HTTP server to loopback and publish their host ports on
127.0.0.1only; do not expose them to untrusted networks. - Do not enable the MCP
callexecution tool on a non-loopback / unauthenticated deployment. - Put an authenticating reverse proxy (with
Host/Originvalidation and a request-body limit) in front of any non-loopback deployment. - Change the demo database's default credentials and restrict its port.
Patches
Upgrade to Kozou 1.8.1 (all npm packages and the ghcr.io/kozou-dev/kozou image).
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"details": "Kozou compiles a PostgreSQL schema into an Admin UI, a REST API, and an MCP server. Several hardening gaps in the bundled HTTP surfaces and the scaffolded dev stack are fixed in **1.8.1**.\n\n## Issues\n\n1. **MCP HTTP server lacked DNS-rebinding protection.** The Streamable HTTP transport is unauthenticated and loopback by default. Without `Host`/`Origin` validation, a malicious web page in the operator\u0027s browser could rebind a hostname it controls to the loopback address and drive the MCP endpoint \u2014 reading schema metadata, or (when the opt-in `call` execution tool is enabled) executing exposed functions as the execution role.\n\n2. **Unbounded request-body buffering (DoS).** Both the MCP HTTP server and the in-house REST server read the entire request body into memory with no size limit, so a reachable client could drive the process toward memory exhaustion.\n\n3. **Read requests ran in a read/write transaction.** The shared role-transaction envelope opened every request with a plain `BEGIN`, so a `GET` ran read/write. A `SELECT` that reaches a volatile function or a writable / `INSTEAD`-triggered view could perform a write that then commits \u2014 the \"a GET only reads\" contract was left to the serving role\u0027s grants rather than enforced.\n\n4. **No-auth dev surfaces published on all interfaces by default.** The scaffolded `docker-compose.yml` (and the quickstart) published the unauthenticated Admin UI and MCP HTTP server \u2014 and the default-credential demo database \u2014 on every host interface, and the config defaulted those binds to `0.0.0.0`.\n\n## What changed in 1.8.1\n\n- **DNS-rebinding guard (MCP HTTP):** the server validates the `Host` header (and a present `Origin`) against an allowlist before handling any request, on every route. Matching is on the hostname; loopback names are always accepted and an operator can add hosts via configuration. A browser cannot forge `Host`/`Origin`, so this closes the rebinding vector. (This is a browser-rebinding defence; network reachability of an unauthenticated server must still be constrained by the network \u2014 see workarounds.)\n- **Request-body size cap:** both HTTP servers reject an over-large declared `Content-Length` (413) and enforce the limit while streaming, so a chunked / `Content-Length`-less body cannot grow unbounded. A non-JSON `Content-Type` on a body is rejected with 415. The cap is configurable.\n- **Read-only read transactions:** read methods (`GET`) now run in a `READ ONLY` transaction, so the database refuses any write for the duration of the request regardless of the role\u0027s grants.\n- **Loopback-by-default network posture:** the Admin UI and MCP HTTP server now bind loopback by default; the bundled compose files publish every host port (Admin UI, MCP, database) on `127.0.0.1` only, while the container binds all interfaces internally so the loopback mapping still works. Operators opt into a broader bind explicitly.\n\n## Impact\n\nThe MCP HTTP server\u0027s exposure is greatest when the opt-in `call` execution tool is enabled and/or the server is reachable beyond loopback. The read/write-transaction issue has effect only when the schema exposes a read path that can write (a volatile-function-backed column or a writable/`INSTEAD`-triggered view) and the serving role holds write grants. The all-interface publish affected anyone who ran the scaffolded `docker compose up` on a host reachable from an untrusted network. Requests run under `SET LOCAL ROLE`, so PostgreSQL still enforces grants/RLS at runtime; these are defense-in-depth and read-contract hardening.\n\n## Affected / patched\n\n- npm packages `kozou`, `@kozou/api`, `@kozou/mcp`, `@kozou/core` (and the lockstep-versioned siblings): affected `\u003c= 1.8.0`, patched **1.8.1**.\n- Container image `ghcr.io/kozou-dev/kozou`: patched at tag `v1.8.1`.\n\n## Workarounds (if you cannot upgrade immediately)\n\n- Bind the Admin UI and MCP HTTP server to loopback and publish their host ports on `127.0.0.1` only; do not expose them to untrusted networks.\n- Do not enable the MCP `call` execution tool on a non-loopback / unauthenticated deployment.\n- Put an authenticating reverse proxy (with `Host`/`Origin` validation and a request-body limit) in front of any non-loopback deployment.\n- Change the demo database\u0027s default credentials and restrict its port.\n\n## Patches\n\nUpgrade to **Kozou 1.8.1** (all npm packages and the `ghcr.io/kozou-dev/kozou` image).",
"id": "GHSA-v52w-28xh-v562",
"modified": "2026-06-19T20:47:19Z",
"published": "2026-06-19T20:47:19Z",
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"url": "https://github.com/kozou-dev/kozou/security/advisories/GHSA-v52w-28xh-v562"
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"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/kozou-dev/kozou"
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"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "Kozou: Unauthenticated MCP HTTP server and bundled dev-stack hardening (DNS-rebinding, request-body limits, read-only reads, default network exposure)"
}
GHSA-V533-M73V-H37V
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-01-11 00:01 – Updated: 2022-09-21 00:00Z-Wave devices based on Silicon Labs 500 series chipsets using S0 authentication are susceptible to uncontrolled resource consumption leading to battery exhaustion. As an example, the Schlage BE468 version 3.42 door lock is vulnerable and fails open at a low battery level.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-9059"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400",
"CWE-770"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-01-10T14:10:00Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "Z-Wave devices based on Silicon Labs 500 series chipsets using S0 authentication are susceptible to uncontrolled resource consumption leading to battery exhaustion. As an example, the Schlage BE468 version 3.42 door lock is vulnerable and fails open at a low battery level.",
"id": "GHSA-v533-m73v-h37v",
"modified": "2022-09-21T00:00:40Z",
"published": "2022-01-11T00:01:41Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9059"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3138768"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/CNK2100/VFuzz-public"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9663293"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/142629"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/142629"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-V56W-326W-7CMW
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:19 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:19IBM API Connect 2018.1 through 2018.3.7 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service due to not setting limits on JSON payload size. IBM X-Force ID: 148802.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-1779"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-770"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2018-11-20T14:29:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "IBM API Connect 2018.1 through 2018.3.7 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service due to not setting limits on JSON payload size. IBM X-Force ID: 148802.",
"id": "GHSA-v56w-326w-7cmw",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:19:28Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:19:28Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1779"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148802"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10733851"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105991"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
Mitigation
Clearly specify the minimum and maximum expectations for capabilities, and dictate which behaviors are acceptable when resource allocation reaches limits.
Mitigation
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.
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, and it will help the administrator to identify who is committing the abuse. 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 MIT-5
Strategy: Input Validation
- Assume all input is malicious. Use an "accept known good" input validation strategy, i.e., use a list of acceptable inputs that strictly conform to specifications. Reject any input that does not strictly conform to specifications, or transform it into something that does.
- When performing input validation, consider all potentially relevant properties, including length, type of input, the full range of acceptable values, missing or extra inputs, syntax, consistency across related fields, and conformance to business rules. As an example of business rule logic, "boat" may be syntactically valid because it only contains alphanumeric characters, but it is not valid if the input is only expected to contain colors such as "red" or "blue."
- Do not rely exclusively on looking for malicious or malformed inputs. This is likely to miss at least one undesirable input, especially if the code's environment changes. This can give attackers enough room to bypass the intended validation. However, denylists can be useful for detecting potential attacks or determining which inputs are so malformed that they should be rejected outright.
Mitigation MIT-15
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.
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 can be difficult to effectively institute -- and even when properly done, it does not provide a full solution. It simply requires more resources on the part of the attacker.
- recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, typically by using increasing time delays
- 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 MIT-38.1
- If the program must fail, ensure that it fails gracefully (fails closed). There may be a temptation to simply let the program fail poorly in cases such as low memory conditions, but an attacker may be able to assert control before the software has fully exited. Alternately, an uncontrolled failure could cause cascading problems with other downstream components; for example, the program could send a signal to a downstream process so the process immediately knows that a problem has occurred and has a better chance of recovery.
- Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture.
Mitigation MIT-47
Strategy: Resource Limitation
- Use quotas or other resource-limiting settings provided by the operating system or environment. For example, when managing system resources in POSIX, setrlimit() can be used to set limits for certain types of resources, and getrlimit() can determine how many resources are available. However, these functions are not available on all operating systems.
- When the current levels get close to the maximum that is defined for the application (see CWE-770), then limit the allocation of further resources to privileged users; alternately, begin releasing resources for less-privileged users. While this mitigation may protect the system from attack, it will not necessarily stop attackers from adversely impacting other users.
- Ensure that the application performs the appropriate error checks and error handling in case resources become unavailable (CWE-703).
CAPEC-125: Flooding
An adversary consumes the resources of a target by rapidly engaging in a large number of interactions with the target. This type of attack generally exposes a weakness in rate limiting or flow. When successful this attack prevents legitimate users from accessing the service and can cause the target to crash. This attack differs from resource depletion through leaks or allocations in that the latter attacks do not rely on the volume of requests made to the target but instead focus on manipulation of the target's operations. The key factor in a flooding attack is the number of requests the adversary can make in a given period of time. The greater this number, the more likely an attack is to succeed against a given target.
CAPEC-130: Excessive Allocation
An adversary causes the target to allocate excessive resources to servicing the attackers' request, thereby reducing the resources available for legitimate services and degrading or denying services. Usually, this attack focuses on memory allocation, but any finite resource on the target could be the attacked, including bandwidth, processing cycles, or other resources. This attack does not attempt to force this allocation through a large number of requests (that would be Resource Depletion through Flooding) but instead uses one or a small number of requests that are carefully formatted to force the target to allocate excessive resources to service this request(s). Often this attack takes advantage of a bug in the target to cause the target to allocate resources vastly beyond what would be needed for a normal request.
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-197: Exponential Data Expansion
An adversary submits data to a target application which contains nested exponential data expansion to produce excessively large output. Many data format languages allow the definition of macro-like structures that can be used to simplify the creation of complex structures. However, this capability can be abused to create excessive demands on a processor's CPU and memory. A small number of nested expansions can result in an exponential growth in demands on memory.
CAPEC-229: Serialized Data Parameter Blowup
This attack exploits certain serialized data parsers (e.g., XML, YAML, etc.) which manage data in an inefficient manner. The attacker crafts an serialized data file with multiple configuration parameters in the same dataset. In a vulnerable parser, this results in a denial of service condition where CPU resources are exhausted because of the parsing algorithm. The weakness being exploited is tied to parser implementation and not language specific.
CAPEC-230: Serialized Data with Nested Payloads
Applications often need to transform data in and out of a data format (e.g., XML and YAML) by using a parser. It may be possible for an adversary to inject data that may have an adverse effect on the parser when it is being processed. Many data format languages allow the definition of macro-like structures that can be used to simplify the creation of complex structures. By nesting these structures, causing the data to be repeatedly substituted, an adversary can cause the parser to consume more resources while processing, causing excessive memory consumption and CPU utilization.
CAPEC-231: Oversized Serialized Data Payloads
An adversary injects oversized serialized data payloads into a parser during data processing to produce adverse effects upon the parser such as exhausting system resources and arbitrary code execution.
CAPEC-469: HTTP DoS
An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
CAPEC-482: TCP Flood
An adversary may execute a flooding attack using the TCP protocol with the intent to deny legitimate users access to a service. These attacks exploit the weakness within the TCP protocol where there is some state information for the connection the server needs to maintain. This often involves the use of TCP SYN messages.
CAPEC-486: UDP Flood
An adversary may execute a flooding attack using the UDP protocol with the intent to deny legitimate users access to a service by consuming the available network bandwidth. Additionally, firewalls often open a port for each UDP connection destined for a service with an open UDP port, meaning the firewalls in essence save the connection state thus the high packet nature of a UDP flood can also overwhelm resources allocated to the firewall. UDP attacks can also target services like DNS or VoIP which utilize these protocols. Additionally, due to the session-less nature of the UDP protocol, the source of a packet is easily spoofed making it difficult to find the source of the attack.
CAPEC-487: ICMP Flood
An adversary may execute a flooding attack using the ICMP protocol with the intent to deny legitimate users access to a service by consuming the available network bandwidth. A typical attack involves a victim server receiving ICMP packets at a high rate from a wide range of source addresses. Additionally, due to the session-less nature of the ICMP protocol, the source of a packet is easily spoofed making it difficult to find the source of the attack.
CAPEC-488: HTTP Flood
An adversary may execute a flooding attack using the HTTP protocol with the intent to deny legitimate users access to a service by consuming resources at the application layer such as web services and their infrastructure. These attacks use legitimate session-based HTTP GET requests designed to consume large amounts of a server's resources. Since these are legitimate sessions this attack is very difficult to detect.
CAPEC-489: SSL Flood
An adversary may execute a flooding attack using the SSL protocol with the intent to deny legitimate users access to a service by consuming all the available resources on the server side. These attacks take advantage of the asymmetric relationship between the processing power used by the client and the processing power used by the server to create a secure connection. In this manner the attacker can make a large number of HTTPS requests on a low provisioned machine to tie up a disproportionately large number of resources on the server. The clients then continue to keep renegotiating the SSL connection. When multiplied by a large number of attacking machines, this attack can result in a crash or loss of service to legitimate users.
CAPEC-490: Amplification
An adversary may execute an amplification where the size of a response is far greater than that of the request that generates it. The goal of this attack is to use a relatively few resources to create a large amount of traffic against a target server. To execute this attack, an adversary send a request to a 3rd party service, spoofing the source address to be that of the target server. The larger response that is generated by the 3rd party service is then sent to the target server. By sending a large number of initial requests, the adversary can generate a tremendous amount of traffic directed at the target. The greater the discrepancy in size between the initial request and the final payload delivered to the target increased the effectiveness of this attack.
CAPEC-491: Quadratic Data Expansion
An adversary exploits macro-like substitution to cause a denial of service situation due to excessive memory being allocated to fully expand the data. The result of this denial of service could cause the application to freeze or crash. This involves defining a very large entity and using it multiple times in a single entity substitution. CAPEC-197 is a similar attack pattern, but it is easier to discover and defend against. This attack pattern does not perform multi-level substitution and therefore does not obviously appear to consume extensive resources.
CAPEC-493: SOAP Array Blowup
An adversary may execute an attack on a web service that uses SOAP messages in communication. By sending a very large SOAP array declaration to the web service, the attacker forces the web service to allocate space for the array elements before they are parsed by the XML parser. The attacker message is typically small in size containing a large array declaration of say 1,000,000 elements and a couple of array elements. This attack targets exhaustion of the memory resources of the web service.
CAPEC-494: TCP Fragmentation
An adversary may execute a TCP Fragmentation attack against a target with the intention of avoiding filtering rules of network controls, by attempting to fragment the TCP packet such that the headers flag field is pushed into the second fragment which typically is not filtered.
CAPEC-495: UDP Fragmentation
An attacker may execute a UDP Fragmentation attack against a target server in an attempt to consume resources such as bandwidth and CPU. IP fragmentation occurs when an IP datagram is larger than the MTU of the route the datagram has to traverse. Typically the attacker will use large UDP packets over 1500 bytes of data which forces fragmentation as ethernet MTU is 1500 bytes. This attack is a variation on a typical UDP flood but it enables more network bandwidth to be consumed with fewer packets. Additionally it has the potential to consume server CPU resources and fill memory buffers associated with the processing and reassembling of fragmented packets.
CAPEC-496: ICMP Fragmentation
An attacker may execute a ICMP Fragmentation attack against a target with the intention of consuming resources or causing a crash. The attacker crafts a large number of identical fragmented IP packets containing a portion of a fragmented ICMP message. The attacker these sends these messages to a target host which causes the host to become non-responsive. Another vector may be sending a fragmented ICMP message to a target host with incorrect sizes in the header which causes the host to hang.
CAPEC-528: XML Flood
An adversary may execute a flooding attack using XML messages with the intent to deny legitimate users access to a web service. These attacks are accomplished by sending a large number of XML based requests and letting the service attempt to parse each one. In many cases this type of an attack will result in a XML Denial of Service (XDoS) due to an application becoming unstable, freezing, or crashing.