CWE-400
DiscouragedUncontrolled Resource Consumption
Abstraction: Class · Status: Draft
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
5486 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-3RWV-JRRG-99X3
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-02-09 06:32 – Updated: 2026-04-08 18:32The Backuply – Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This is due to direct access of the backuply/restore_ins.php file and. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make excessive requests that result in the server running out of resources.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2024-0842"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400",
"CWE-834"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-02-09T05:15:08Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "The Backuply \u2013 Backup, Restore, Migrate and Clone plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Denial of Service in all versions up to, and including, 1.2.5. This is due to direct access of the backuply/restore_ins.php file and. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to make excessive requests that result in the server running out of resources.",
"id": "GHSA-3rwv-jrrg-99x3",
"modified": "2026-04-08T18:32:35Z",
"published": "2024-02-09T06:32:24Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0842"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3033242/backuply/trunk/restore_ins.php"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail=\u0026reponame=\u0026old=3036756%40backuply\u0026new=3036756%40backuply\u0026sfp_email=\u0026sfph_mail="
},
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"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1f955d88-ab4c-4cf4-a23b-91119d412716?source=cve"
}
],
"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-3V3H-H6M5-G9W5
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-14 01:05 – Updated: 2022-05-14 01:05ReadWEBPImage in coders/webp.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has an issue where memory allocation is excessive because it depends only on a length field in a header.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2017-14137"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2017-09-04T23:29:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "ReadWEBPImage in coders/webp.c in ImageMagick 7.0.6-5 has an issue where memory allocation is excessive because it depends only on a length field in a header.",
"id": "GHSA-3v3h-h6m5-g9w5",
"modified": "2022-05-14T01:05:33Z",
"published": "2022-05-14T01:05:33Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14137"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/641"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-07"
}
],
"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"
}
]
}
GHSA-3V4J-CJVQ-5P59
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-11-27 00:30 – Updated: 2025-11-27 00:30BACnet Test Server versions up to and including 1.01 contains a remote denial of service vulnerability in its BACnet/IP BVLC packet handling. The server fails to properly validate the BVLC Length field in incoming UDP BVLC frames on the default BACnet port (47808/udp). A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a malformed BVLC Length value to trigger an access violation and crash the application, resulting in a denial of service.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2020-36872"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
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"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-11-26T23:15:47Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "BACnet Test Server versions up to and including 1.01 contains a remote denial of service vulnerability in its BACnet/IP BVLC packet handling. The server fails to properly validate the BVLC Length field in incoming UDP BVLC frames on the default BACnet port (47808/udp). A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a malformed BVLC Length value to trigger an access violation and crash the application, resulting in a denial of service.",
"id": "GHSA-3v4j-cjvq-5p59",
"modified": "2025-11-27T00:30:27Z",
"published": "2025-11-27T00:30:27Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-36872"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://cxsecurity.com/issue/WLB-2020100045"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159504"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.bac-test.com"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/48860"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/bacnet-test-server-malformed-bvlc-length-dos"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2020-5597.php"
}
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/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-3V6W-73Q2-W9PG
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-03-04 00:30 – Updated: 2025-03-06 18:30In OpenBSD 7.2, a TCP packet with destination port 0 that matches a pf divert-to rule can crash the kernel.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-27567"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-03-03T22:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In OpenBSD 7.2, a TCP packet with destination port 0 that matches a pf divert-to rule can crash the kernel.",
"id": "GHSA-3v6w-73q2-w9pg",
"modified": "2025-03-06T18:30:49Z",
"published": "2023-03-04T00:30:16Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27567"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/0a543725ccdd2a01669122ce79bb67e66ede77f2"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/7.2/common/013_tcp.patch.sig"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230406-0001"
}
],
"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-3V74-RM67-6782
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-18 15:30 – Updated: 2024-09-18 21:30An issue was discovered in Technitium 11.0.2. There is a vulnerability (called BadDNS) in DNS resolving software, which triggers a resolver to ignore valid responses, thus causing DoS (denial of service) for normal resolution. The effects of an exploit would be widespread and highly impactful, because the attacker could just forge a response targeting the source port of a vulnerable resolver without the need to guess the correct TXID.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-28451"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
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"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-09-18T15:15:13Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "An issue was discovered in Technitium 11.0.2. There is a vulnerability (called BadDNS) in DNS resolving software, which triggers a resolver to ignore valid responses, thus causing DoS (denial of service) for normal resolution. The effects of an exploit would be widespread and highly impactful, because the attacker could just forge a response targeting the source port of a vulnerable resolver without the need to guess the correct TXID.",
"id": "GHSA-3v74-rm67-6782",
"modified": "2024-09-18T21:30:48Z",
"published": "2024-09-18T15:30:52Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28451"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://gist.github.com/idealeer/89947ca07836fd0f7e9761198ca9a0f3."
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://technitium.com/dns"
}
],
"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-3VM6-QCR3-WWV3
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-01-03 00:30 – Updated: 2024-01-09 18:30An issue in YASM 1.3.0.86.g9def allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the expand_smacro function in the modules/preprocs/nasm/nasm-pp.c component.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2023-49555"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
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"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2024-01-03T00:15:09Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "An issue in YASM 1.3.0.86.g9def allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the expand_smacro function in the modules/preprocs/nasm/nasm-pp.c component.",
"id": "GHSA-3vm6-qcr3-wwv3",
"modified": "2024-01-09T18:30:26Z",
"published": "2024-01-03T00:30:24Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49555"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/yasm/yasm/issues/248"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-3VR8-7HQF-C92W
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-07-17 21:31 – Updated: 2024-04-04 06:11An issue was discovered in ngiflib 0.4. There is SEGV in SDL_LoadAnimatedGif when use SDLaffgif. poc : ./SDLaffgif CA_file2_0
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-30858"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-07-17T19:15:09Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "An issue was discovered in ngiflib 0.4. There is SEGV in SDL_LoadAnimatedGif when use SDLaffgif. poc : ./SDLaffgif CA_file2_0",
"id": "GHSA-3vr8-7hqf-c92w",
"modified": "2024-04-04T06:11:33Z",
"published": "2023-07-17T21:31:11Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-30858"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/miniupnp/ngiflib/issues/22"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/Marsman1996/pocs/blob/master/ngiflib/CVE-2022-30858/README.md"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-3VV6-22QM-HGWQ
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-13 01:36 – Updated: 2022-05-13 01:36The Juniper Enhanced jdhcpd daemon may experience high CPU utilization, or crash and restart upon receipt of an invalid IPv6 UDP packet. Both high CPU utilization and repeated crashes of the jdhcpd daemon can result in a denial of service as DHCP service is interrupted. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D12, 14.1X53-D38, 14.1X53-D40 on QFX, EX, QFabric System; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S18, 15.1R4 on all products and platforms; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D80 on SRX; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D51, 15.1X53-D60 on NFX, QFX, EX.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2017-2348"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2017-07-17T13:18:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "The Juniper Enhanced jdhcpd daemon may experience high CPU utilization, or crash and restart upon receipt of an invalid IPv6 UDP packet. Both high CPU utilization and repeated crashes of the jdhcpd daemon can result in a denial of service as DHCP service is interrupted. No other Juniper Networks products or platforms are affected by this issue. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Junos OS 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D12, 14.1X53-D38, 14.1X53-D40 on QFX, EX, QFabric System; 15.1 prior to 15.1F2-S18, 15.1R4 on all products and platforms; 15.1X49 prior to 15.1X49-D80 on SRX; 15.1X53 prior to 15.1X53-D51, 15.1X53-D60 on NFX, QFX, EX.",
"id": "GHSA-3vv6-22qm-hgwq",
"modified": "2022-05-13T01:36:56Z",
"published": "2022-05-13T01:36:56Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2348"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://kb.juniper.net/JSA10800"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038899"
}
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"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
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"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-3W49-M976-RM7J
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2021-12-08 00:01 – Updated: 2021-12-09 00:01There is a Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to Screen projection application denial of service.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2021-37061"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
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"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2021-12-07T17:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "There is a Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to Screen projection application denial of service.",
"id": "GHSA-3w49-m976-rm7j",
"modified": "2021-12-09T00:01:38Z",
"published": "2021-12-08T00:01:19Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37061"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/security/update/security-bulletins-202109-0000001196270727"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
GHSA-3W4J-297M-588Q
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-07-18 00:00 – Updated: 2022-07-22 00:00Pexip Infinity before 27.3 allows remote attackers to trigger excessive resource consumption via H.264.
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"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2022-27937"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2022-07-17T21:15:00Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "Pexip Infinity before 27.3 allows remote attackers to trigger excessive resource consumption via H.264.",
"id": "GHSA-3w4j-297m-588q",
"modified": "2022-07-22T00:00:39Z",
"published": "2022-07-18T00:00:32Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-27937"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://docs.pexip.com/admin/security_bulletins.htm#CVE-2022-27937"
}
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"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.