Denial Of Service

Limited resources include memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. If an attacker can trigger the allocation of these limited resources, but the number or size of the resources is not controlled, then the attacker could cause a denial of service that consumes all available resources.

Remediation

Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture.
Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.

Metadata

Severity: medium
Slug: denial-of-service

CWEs

400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

OWASP

A05:2021: Security Misconfiguration
SC10:2025: Denial Of Service

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