CWE-400
DiscouragedUncontrolled Resource Consumption
Abstraction: Class · Status: Draft
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
5435 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.
GHSA-VC89-HCCF-RQ55
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-01-06 23:48 – Updated: 2025-12-16 22:29Impact
Extenders of the org.typelevel.jawn.SimpleFacade and org.typelevel.jawn.MutableFacade who don't override objectContext() are vulnerable to a hash collision attack. Most applications do not implement these traits directly, but inherit from a library:
Affected implementations include:
* org.http4s :: http4s-play-json
* org.typelevel :: jawn-ast (< 0.8.0)
* org.typelevel :: jawn-play (discontinued)
* org.typelevel :: jawn-rojoma (discontinued)
* org.typelevel :: jawn-spray (discontinued)
Unaffected implementations include:
* io.argonaut :: argonaut-jawn
* io.circe :: circe-parser
* org.typelevel :: jawn-ast (>= 0.8.0)
* org.typelevel :: jawn-json4s (discontinued)
* org.typelevel :: jawn-argonaut (discontinued)
Patches
jawn-parser-1.3.2 fixes the issue.
Workarounds
Override objectContext() to use a collision-safe collection. See the patch for an example in both SimpleFacade and MutableFacade.
References
- https://github.com/typelevel/jawn/pull/390
Credits
- @kag0, for the report and the patch
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in typelevel/jawn * E-mail a maintainer: * @rossabaker
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GHSA-VC99-RG67-MM68
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-27 15:31 – Updated: 2025-03-28 15:31An out-of-memory error in the parseABC_STRING_INFO function of libming v0.4.8 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) due to allocator exhaustion.
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GHSA-VCC7-HJGH-MX9V
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-06-01 21:30 – Updated: 2026-06-02 15:32FlexRIC v2.0.0 allows a single SCTP connection to bind multiple xapp_ids by sending multiple E42_SETUP_REQUESTs. On disconnect, only the first registered xapp_id's resources are cleaned up; subsequent xapp_ids and their subscriptions remain as stale entries. A remote attacker can exploit this to leak subscription state in the iApp, potentially causing resource exhaustion or state corruption over time.
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GHSA-VCMG-67GW-XR96
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-07-19 00:00 – Updated: 2022-07-30 00:00ManageEngine Password Manager Pro 12100 and prior and OPManager 126100 and prior are vulnerable to unauthorized file and directory creation on a server machine.
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GHSA-VCPJ-66GX-C27M
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 17:36 – Updated: 2024-04-04 03:03srs2.c in PostSRSd before 1.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long timestamp tag in an SRS address.
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GHSA-VCPQ-5CPM-3VF2
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-18 00:00 – Updated: 2022-05-27 00:01IBM DataPower Gateway 10.0.2.0, 10.0.3.0, 10.0.1.0 through 10.0.1.4, and 2018.4.1.0 through 2018.4.1.17 could allow a remote user to cause a denial of service by consuming resources with multiple requests. IBM X-Force ID: 208348.
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GHSA-VCQ7-VMQP-987H
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-08-17 00:00 – Updated: 2022-08-23 00:00PNGDec commit 8abf6be was discovered to contain a FPE via SaveBMP at /linux/main.cpp.
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GHSA-VCR3-PVG9-93RG
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-18 15:30 – Updated: 2024-09-18 15:30Vulnerability in CIRCUTOR TCP2RS+ firmware version 1.3b, which could allow an attacker to modify any configuration value, even if the device has the user/password authentication option enabled, without authentication by sending packets through the UDP protocol and port 2000, deconfiguring the device and thus disabling its use. This equipment is at the end of its useful life cycle.
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"details": "Vulnerability in CIRCUTOR TCP2RS+ firmware version 1.3b, which could allow an attacker to modify any configuration value, even if the device has the user/password authentication option enabled, without authentication by sending packets through the UDP protocol and port 2000, deconfiguring the device and thus disabling its use. This equipment is at the end of its useful life cycle.",
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"modified": "2024-09-18T15:30:49Z",
"published": "2024-09-18T15:30:49Z",
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GHSA-VCXX-JFX3-H7XH
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 00:16 – Updated: 2022-05-17 00:16P9 Plus smartphones with software versions earlier before VIE-AL10BC00B386 have a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can send given parameter to specific interface, which make a large number of memory allocation and the smart phone will be crash for memory exhaustion.
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"details": "P9 Plus smartphones with software versions earlier before VIE-AL10BC00B386 have a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can send given parameter to specific interface, which make a large number of memory allocation and the smart phone will be crash for memory exhaustion.",
"id": "GHSA-vcxx-jfx3-h7xh",
"modified": "2022-05-17T00:16:44Z",
"published": "2022-05-17T00:16:44Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2734"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170419-02-smartphone-en"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
GHSA-VF2R-6G4X-JC4H
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-22 09:31 – Updated: 2026-04-22 09:31In Progress® Telerik® UI for AJAX prior to 2026.1.421, RadAsyncUpload contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows file uploads to exceed the configured maximum size due to missing cumulative size enforcement during chunk reassembly, leading to disk space exhaustion.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2026-6022"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-400"
],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2026-04-22T08:16:12Z",
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "In Progress\u00ae Telerik\u00ae UI for AJAX prior to 2026.1.421, RadAsyncUpload contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows file uploads to exceed the configured maximum size due to missing cumulative size enforcement during chunk reassembly, leading to disk space exhaustion.",
"id": "GHSA-vf2r-6g4x-jc4h",
"modified": "2026-04-22T09:31:31Z",
"published": "2026-04-22T09:31:31Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-6022"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/documentation/knowledge-base/kb-security-uncontrolled-resource-consumption-cve-2026-6022"
}
],
"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"
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]
}
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.