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Denial of Service

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Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

How It Works

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions. Attackers exploit asymmetry: minimal attacker effort produces disproportionate resource consumption on the target. Application-level attacks use specially crafted inputs that trigger expensive operations—a regex engine processing malicious patterns can backtrack exponentially, or XML parsers recursively expand entities until memory exhausts. Network-level attacks flood targets with connection requests or amplify traffic through reflection, but application vulnerabilities often provide the most efficient attack surface.

The attack typically begins with reconnaissance to identify resource-intensive operations or unprotected endpoints. For algorithmic complexity attacks, adversaries craft inputs hitting worst-case performance—hash collision inputs filling hash tables with collisions, deeply nested JSON triggering recursive parsing, or pathological regex patterns like (a+)+b against strings of repeated 'a' characters. Resource exhaustion attacks open thousands of connections, upload massive files to unbounded storage, or trigger memory leaks through repeated operations. Crash-based attacks target error handling gaps: null pointer dereferences, unhandled exceptions in parsers, or assertion failures that terminate processes.

Impact

  • Service unavailability preventing legitimate users from accessing applications during attack duration
  • Revenue loss from downtime in e-commerce, SaaS platforms, or transaction processing systems
  • Cascading failures as resource exhaustion spreads to dependent services or database connections pool out
  • SLA violations triggering financial penalties and damaging customer trust
  • Security team distraction providing cover for data exfiltration or intrusion attempts running concurrently

Real-World Examples

CVE-2018-1000544 in Ruby's WEBrick server allowed ReDoS through malicious HTTP headers containing specially crafted patterns that caused the regex engine to backtrack exponentially, freezing request processing threads. A single attacker could saturate all available workers.

Cloudflare experienced a global outage in 2019 when a single WAF rule containing an unoptimized regex hit pathological cases on legitimate traffic spikes. The .*(?:.*=.*)* pattern exhibited catastrophic backtracking, consuming CPU cycles across their edge network until the rule was disabled.

CVE-2013-1664 demonstrated XML bomb vulnerabilities in Python's XML libraries. Attackers uploaded XML documents with nested entity definitions-each entity expanding to ten copies of the previous level. A 1KB upload could expand to gigabytes in memory during parsing, crashing applications instantly.

Mitigation

  • Strict input validation enforcing size limits, complexity bounds, and nesting depth restrictions before processing
  • Request rate limiting per IP address, API key, or user session with exponential backoff
  • Timeout enforcement terminating operations exceeding reasonable execution windows (typically 1-5 seconds)
  • Resource quotas limiting memory allocation, CPU time, and connection counts per request or tenant
  • Regex complexity analysis using linear-time algorithms or sanitizing patterns to eliminate backtracking
  • Circuit breakers automatically rejecting requests when error rates or latency thresholds indicate degradation
  • Load balancing and autoscaling distributing traffic across instances with automatic capacity expansion

Recent CVEs (40118)

EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The issue was addressed with improved memory handling. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Apple
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.0
HIGH POC This Week

A stack overflow vulnerability in the Tenda W18E V16.01.0.8(1625) web management portal allows an authenticated remote attacker to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.0), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM This Month

wandb/openui latest commit c945bb859979659add5f490a874140ad17c56a5d contains a vulnerability where unauthenticated endpoints allow file uploads and downloads from an AWS S3 bucket. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XSS Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality in Ruby. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Suse
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.1
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

PAM-PKCS#11 is a Linux-PAM login module that allows a X.509 certificate based user login. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Red Hat +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: scsi: storvsc: Ratelimit warning logs to prevent VM denial of service If there's a persistent error in the hypervisor, the SCSI. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Allocation of Resources Without Limits vulnerability could allow attackers to exhaust system resources through uncontrolled allocation.

Denial Of Service Linux Red Hat +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: USB: serial: quatech2: fix null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb() This patch addresses a null-ptr-deref in qt2_process_read_urb(). Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/v3d: Assign job pointer to NULL before signaling the fence In commit e4b5ccd392b9 ("drm/v3d: Ensure job pointer is set to NULL. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.7).

Denial Of Service Linux Chrome +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A flaw in libtasn1 causes inefficient handling of specific certificate data. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: platform/x86: lenovo-yoga-tab2-pro-1380-fastcharger: fix serdev race The yt2_1380_fc_serdev_probe() function calls. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.7). This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Linux Chrome +6
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Joplin Joplin Project
NVD GitHub
EPSS 9% CVSS 7.1
HIGH POC This Week

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in D-Link DIR-823X 240126/240802. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service D-Link Dir 823x Firmware
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.6
MEDIUM POC This Month

NEXTU FLETA AX1500 WIFI6 v1.0.3 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow at /boafrm/formIpQoS. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.6). No vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Month

in OpenHarmony v4.1.2 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause the common permission is upgraded to root and sensitive information leak through use after free. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A memory leak could occur when a remote peer abruptly closes the socket without sending a GOAWAY notification. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Node.js Red Hat +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

A Denial of Service (DoS) issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 7.14.1 prior to 17.3.7, 17.4 prior to 17.4.4, and 17.5 prior to 17.5.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Gitlab
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Month

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Proftpd commit 4017eff8 allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) on the FTP service by sending a maliciously crafted. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Certain HP LaserJet Pro printers may potentially experience a denial of service when a user sends a raw JPEG file to the printer via IPP (Internet Printing Protocol). Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service HP G3Q78A Firmware +9
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

IBM EntireX 11.1 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service due to an unhandled error and fault isolation. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service IBM Entirex
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An issue in floodlight v1.2 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the Topology Manager module and Linkdiscovery module. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Floodlight Projectfloodlight
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

An issue in floodlight v1.2 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the Topology Manager module, Topologylnstance module, Routing module. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Floodlight Projectfloodlight
NVD GitHub
EPSS 10% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

A rate limiting issue in Sylius v2.0.2 allows a remote attacker to perform unrestricted brute-force attacks on user accounts, significantly increasing the risk of account compromise and denial of. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Sylius
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Apache James server JMAP HTML to text plain implementation in versions below 3.8.2 and 3.7.6 is subject to unbounded memory consumption that can result in a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Apache James Server
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.6
HIGH PATCH This Week

Similarly to CVE-2024-34055, Apache James is vulnerable to denial of service through the abuse of IMAP literals from both authenticated and unauthenticated users, which could be used to cause. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Apache James Server
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in Defense Platform Home Edition Ver.3.9.51.x and earlier. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Windows Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM This Month

IBM Aspera Shares 1.9.0 through 1.10.0 PL6 does not properly rate limit the frequency that an authenticated user can send emails, which could result in email flooding or a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service IBM Aspera Shares
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Month

A security issue was found in Netplex Json-smart 2.5.0 through 2.5.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

A floating point exception (divide-by-zero) vulnerability was discovered in Bento4 1.6.0-641 in function AP4_TfraAtom() of Ap4TfraAtom.cpp which allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Bento4 Axiosys
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A prototype pollution in the function fieldsToJson of node-opcua-alarm-condition v2.134.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A prototype pollution in the function deepMerge of @stryker-mutator/util v8.6.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the function lib.parse of dot-properties v1.0.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A prototype pollution in the lib.createUploader function of @rpldy/uploader v1.8.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.fromQuery function of underscore-contrib v0.3.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.install function of vxe-table v4.8.10 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.deepMerge function of @zag-js/core v0.50.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.merge function of cli-util v1.1.27 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL Act Now

The latest version of utils-extend (1.0.8) is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution through the entry function(s) lib.extend. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.post function of ajax-request v1.2.3 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Month

A prototype pollution in the lib.Logger function of eazy-logger v4.0.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.merge function of xe-utils v3.5.31 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.requireFromString function of module-from-string v3.3.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.combine function of php-parser v3.2.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib function of expand-object v0.4.2 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.mutateMergeDeep function of @tanstack/form-core v0.35.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.parse function of dot-qs v0.2.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.deep function of @ndhoule/defaults v2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.createPath function of utile v0.3.0 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib.setValue function of @syncfusion/ej2-spreadsheet v27.2.2 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A prototype pollution in the lib function of php-date-formatter v1.3.6 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via supplying a crafted payload. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Prototype Pollution
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH This Week

When BIG-IP AFM is provisioned with IPS module enabled and protocol inspection profile is configured on a virtual server or firewall rule or policy, undisclosed traffic can cause an increase in CPU. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Big Ip Advanced Firewall Manager Big Ip Next Cloud Native Network Functions +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.9
HIGH This Week

When Client or Server SSL profiles are configured on a Virtual Server, or DNSSEC signing operations are in use, undisclosed traffic can cause an increase in memory and CPU resource utilization. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall Big Ip Application Security Manager +20
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.9
HIGH This Month

When a BIG-IP message routing profile is configured on a virtual server, undisclosed traffic can cause an increase in memory resource utilization. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall Big Ip Application Security Manager +20
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.7
HIGH This Month

When SIP session Application Level Gateway mode (ALG) profile with Passthru Mode enabled and SIP router ALG profile are configured on a Message Routing type virtual server, undisclosed traffic can. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Big Ip Advanced Web Application Firewall +21
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH This Month

This is a similar, but different vulnerability than the issue reported as CVE-2024-39549. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Juniper Junos +1
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.7 prior to 16.9.7, starting from 16.10 prior to 16.10.5, and starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.2. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Gitlab
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 7.0
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

A double-close vulnerability exists in libcurl when tearing down connection channels after threaded name resolution, causing the same eventfd file descriptor to be closed twice. This affects curl version 8.11.1 and various NetApp products that bundle libcurl, potentially leading to file descriptor confusion, limited information disclosure, and high availability impact. A public proof-of-concept exploit is available (HackerOne report 2954286), and the vulnerability has a notably high EPSS score of 6.37% (91st percentile), indicating elevated real-world exploitation likelihood.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Red Hat +12
NVD VulDB
EPSS 3% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

A denial of service vulnerability was identified in GitLab CE/EE, affecting all versions from 15.11 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5 and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows an attacker to spike. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Gitlab
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Discourse is an open source platform for community discussion. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability could allow attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources.

Denial Of Service Discourse
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 133.0.6943.53 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Chrome Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Use after free in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 133.0.6943.53 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Chrome Google +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An attacker could have caused a use-after-free via the Custom Highlight API, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

An attacker could have caused a use-after-free via crafted XSLT data, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.3
CRITICAL PATCH This Week

Django-Unicorn adds modern reactive component functionality to Django templates. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

XSS Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in DNS-over-QUIC in Technitium DNS Server <= v13.2.2 allows remote attackers to permanently stop the server from accepting new DNS-over-QUIC connections by triggering unhandled. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Dnsserver Technitium
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in Open5gs v2.7.2. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Open5gs
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

rust-openssl is a set of OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Month

Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows a local non-privileged user process to make improper GPU processing. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM This Month

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') vulnerability in Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Kernel Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Kernel Driver allows. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service 5th Gen Gpu Architecture Kernel Driver Bifrost Gpu Kernel Driver +2
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Month

In network HW, there is a possible system hang due to an uncaught exception. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Mediatek Software Development Kit
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

In Bluetooth FW, there is a possible reachable assertion due to improper exception handling. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Google Android +5
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM PATCH Monitor

NVIDIA GPU kernel driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where a potential user-mode attacker could read a buffer with an incorrect length. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Windows Denial Of Service Microsoft +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.7
LOW Monitor

Dell PowerProtect DD versions prior to 7.10.1.50 and 7.13.1.20 contain a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the RestAPI. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Stack Overflow +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Month

Dell PowerProtect DD versions prior to DDOS 8.3.0.0, 7.10.1.50, and 7.13.1.20 contain a path traversal vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Path Traversal Dell +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Week

In macrozheng mall-tiny 1.0.1, an attacker can send null data through the resource creation interface resulting in a null pointer dereference occurring in all subsequent operations that require. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Mall Tiny +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Month

A heap buffer overflow in the XML Text Escaping component of Qualisys C++ SDK commit a32a21a allows attackers to cause Denial of Service (DoS) via escaping special XML characters. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Month

IBM Security Verify Directory 10.0 through 10.0.3 is vulnerable to a denial of service when sending an LDAP extended operation. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service IBM Security Verify Directory
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Linux kernel bnxt ethernet driver fails to recalculate network features after XDP program detachment, causing null pointer dereference and kernel crash when ring configurations are subsequently modified. The vulnerability affects Linux kernel 6.13-rc1 through 6.13-rc7 and potentially earlier versions; local authenticated users can trigger denial of service via ethtool channel reconfiguration following XDP off commands. EPSS exploitation probability is extremely low at 0.01th percentile, and no public exploit code has been identified.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: openvswitch: fix lockup on tx to unregistering netdev with carrier Commit in a fixes tag attempted to fix the issue in the. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Red Hat +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A denial of service vulnerability (CVSS 5.5). Remediation should follow standard vulnerability management procedures. Vendor patch is available.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Clear port select structure when fail to create Clear the port select structure on error so no stale values left after. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/bpf: return early if transport is not assigned Some of the core functions can only be called if the transport has been. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: discard packets if the transport changes If the socket has been de-assigned or assigned to another transport, we must. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pmdomain: imx8mp-blk-ctrl: add missing loop break condition Currently imx8mp_blk_ctrl_remove() will continue the for loop until an. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Red Hat +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iomap: avoid avoid truncating 64-bit offset to 32 bits on 32-bit kernels, iomap_write_delalloc_scan() was inadvertently using a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Red Hat +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock: prevent null-ptr-deref in vsock_*[has_data|has_space] Recent reports have shown how we sometimes call vsock_*_has_data(). Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: filemap: avoid truncating 64-bit offset to 32 bits On 32-bit kernels, folio_seek_hole_data() was inadvertently truncating a 64-bit. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Red Hat +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mac802154: check local interfaces before deleting sdata list syzkaller reported a corrupted list in ieee802154_if_remove. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Linux Google +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Users can consume unlimited disk space in /var/crash. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Canonical Suse +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.3
LOW Monitor

SXF Common Library handles input data improperly. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.9
LOW Monitor

Symlink following in the installer for Zoom Workplace App for macOS before 6.2.10 may allow an authenticated user to conduct a denial of service via local access. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.9), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Apple macOS +6
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