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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 (40223)

EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

In the Linux kernel 5.0.21, mounting a crafted f2fs filesystem image can cause a NULL pointer dereference in f2fs_recover_fsync_data in fs/f2fs/recovery.c. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

Improper conditions check in multiple Intel® Processors may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable partial escalation of privilege, denial of service and/or information disclosure via. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +379
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Null pointer dereference in the FPGA kernel driver for Intel(R) Quartus(R) Prime Pro Edition before version 19.3 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

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

Improper conditions check in the Linux kernel driver for the Intel(R) FPGA SDK for OpenCL(TM) Pro Edition before version 19.4 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Intel +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 CD, 9.1 LTS, 9.0 LTS, and 8.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack caused by channels processing poorly formatted messages. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service IBM Mq Appliance
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

knot-resolver before version 4.3.0 is vulnerable to denial of service through high CPU utilization. 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 Debian Debian Linux +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

Some Huawei smart phones have a null pointer dereference vulnerability. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Huawei +50
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Certain Huawei products (AP2000;IPS Module;NGFW Module;NIP6300;NIP6600;NIP6800;S5700;SVN5600;SVN5800;SVN5800-C;SeMG9811;Secospace AntiDDoS8000;Secospace USG6300;Secospace USG6500;Secospace. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Huawei +17
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Certain Huawei products (AP2000;IPS Module;NGFW Module;NIP6300;NIP6600;NIP6800;S5700;SVN5600;SVN5800;SVN5800-C;SeMG9811;Secospace AntiDDoS8000;Secospace USG6300;Secospace USG6500;Secospace. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +18
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Huawei smartphones HUAWEI Y9 2019 and Honor View 20 have a denial of service vulnerability. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Huawei Y9 2019 Firmware +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

A stack-based buffer overflow in processCommandUploadSnapshot in libcommon.so in Petwant PF-103 firmware 4.22.2.42 and Petalk AI 3.2.2.30 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or run. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +5
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

A stack-based buffer overflow in processCommandUploadLog in libcommon.so in Petwant PF-103 firmware 4.22.2.42 and Petalk AI 3.2.2.30 allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or run. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +5
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

In Dovecot before 2.3.9.2, an attacker can crash a push-notification driver with a crafted email when push notifications are used, because of a NULL Pointer Dereference. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Fedora +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Envoy 1.12.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Envoy +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 7% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, a message can be crafted in a way to use excessive resources. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Apache Debian +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the 802.11w security state handling for hostapd 2.6 connected clients with valid 802.11w sessions. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Hostapd W1 Fi
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the hostapd 2.6, where an attacker could trigger AP to send IAPP location updates for stations, before the required authentication process has. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Hostapd W1 Fi
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Advantech WebAccess before 8.4.3 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) due to a stack-based buffer overflow when handling. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +3
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM This Month

A vulnerability has been identified in Desigo PX automation controllers PXC00-E.D, PXC50-E.D, PXC100-E.D, PXC200-E.D with Desigo PX Web modules PXA40-W0, PXA40-W1, PXA40-W2 (All firmware versions <. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Siemens Pxc00 E D Firmware +15
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Null pointer dereference issue in kernel due to missing check related to LLC support in GPU in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Qualcomm +6
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Infinite loop while decoding compressed data can lead to overrun condition in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon IoT, Snapdragon. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Qualcomm Apq8017 Firmware +54
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Use after free issue occurs when command destructors access dynamically allocated response buffer which is already deallocated during previous command teardwon sequence in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +17
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Dicom-packet parsing functionality of LEADTOOLS libltdic.so version 20.0.2019.3.15. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Leadtools
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 HVM/PVH guest OS users to cause a denial of service (guest OS crash) because VMX VMEntry checks mishandle a certain case. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Debian Intel +7
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) because certain bit iteration is mishandled. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Fedora Xen +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing 32-bit Arm guest OS users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds access) because certain bit iteration is mishandled. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Buffer Overflow vulnerability could allow attackers to corrupt memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Fedora +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service via degenerate chains of linear pagetables, because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-15595. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Fedora +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.12.x allowing x86 AMD HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges by triggering data-structure access during pagetable-height. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Memory Leak vulnerability could allow attackers to exhaust available memory leading to denial of service.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Intel +4
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

On Moxa EDS-G508E, EDS-G512E, and EDS-G516E devices (with firmware through 6.0), denial of service can occur via PROFINET DCE-RPC endpoint discovery packets. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Eds G512E Firmware Eds G508E Firmware +2
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Microsoft Word Denial of Service Vulnerability'. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Office +2
NVD
EPSS 9% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) when an attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests, aka 'Windows Remote Desktop. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Windows Server 2008 +7
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

The modoboa-dmarc plugin 1.1.0 for Modoboa is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) attack when processing XML data. 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 XXE Modoboa Dmarc +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM POC This Month

A potential vulnerability has been reported in Lenovo Power Management Driver versions prior to 1.67.17.48 leading to a buffer overflow which could cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Lenovo +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in Lenovo Energy Management Driver for Windows 10 versions prior to 15.11.29.7 that could cause systems to experience a blue screen error. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Lenovo +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

marc-q libwav through 2017-04-20 has a NULL pointer dereference in wav_content_read() at libwav.c. 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 Null Pointer Dereference Libwav +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 8% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

SQLite 3.30.1 mishandles certain SELECT statements with a nonexistent VIEW, leading to an application crash. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Apache Oracle +8
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Trend Micro Security (Consumer) 2020 (v16.x) is affected by a vulnerability in where null pointer dereference errors result in the crash of application, which could potentially lead to possible. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

RCE Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference +5
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

In the macho_parse_file functionality in macho/macho.c of YARA 3.11.0, command_size may be inconsistent with the real size. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +5
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

radare2 through 4.0.0 lacks validation of the content variable in the function r_asm_pseudo_incbin at libr/asm/asm.c, ultimately leading to an arbitrary write. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Fedora +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

In handleRun of TextLine.java, there is a possible application crash due to improper input validation. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Google Android
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

In nfcManager_routeAid and nfcManager_unrouteAid of NativeNfcManager.cpp, there is possible memory reuse due to a use after free. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Information Disclosure Google +3
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

In setCpuVulkanInUse of GpuStats.cpp, there is possible memory corruption due to a use after free. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Privilege Escalation Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +4
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

An issue was discovered on Weidmueller IE-SW-VL05M 3.6.6 Build 16102415, IE-SW-VL08MT 3.5.2 Build 16102415, and IE-SW-PL10M 3.3.16 Build 16102416 devices. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Ie Sw Pl09M 5Gc 4Gt Firmware Ie Sw Pl09Mt 5Gc 4Gt Firmware +39
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

In all versions of libyang before 1.0-r5, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way libyang parses YANG files with a leaf of type "identityref". Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +7
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

In all versions of libyang before 1.0-r5, a stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the way libyang parses YANG files with a leaf of type "bits". Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +5
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM This Month

The Audible application through 2.34.0 for Android has Missing SSL Certificate Validation for Adobe SDKs, allowing MITM attackers to cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Google Adobe +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

In Puma before versions 3.12.2 and 4.3.1, a poorly-behaved client could use keepalive requests to monopolize Puma's reactor and create a denial of service attack. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Debian Linux +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Improper Check for filenames with overly long extensions in PostMaster (sending in email) or uploading files (e.g. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Otrs
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.1
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

fpregs_state_valid in arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h in the Linux kernel before 5.4.2, when GCC 9 is used, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Linux +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

lookupName in resolve.c in SQLite 3.30.1 omits bits from the colUsed bitmask in the case of a generated column, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Oracle Siemens +6
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

In radare2 through 4.0, there is an integer overflow for the variable new_token_size in the function r_asm_massemble at libr/asm/asm.c. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Denial Of Service Integer Overflow +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

The validators package 0.12.2 through 0.12.5 for Python enters an infinite loop when validators.domain is called with a crafted domain string. 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 Python Validators
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

In Wireshark 3.0.0 to 3.0.6 and 2.6.0 to 2.6.12, the CMS dissector could crash. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Debian Oracle +6
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

In Mcrouter prior to v0.41.0, a large struct input provided to the Carbon protocol reader could result in stack exhaustion and denial of service. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Facebook Mcrouter
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

In Mcrouter prior to v0.41.0, the deprecated ASCII parser would allocate a buffer to a user-specified length with no maximum length enforced, allowing for resource exhaustion or denial of service. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Allocation of Resources Without Limits vulnerability could allow attackers to exhaust system resources through uncontrolled allocation.

Denial Of Service Facebook Mcrouter
NVD GitHub
EPSS 45% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC THREAT This Week

A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the processing of multi-part/form-data requests in the base GoAhead web server application in versions v5.0.1, v.4.1.1 and v3.6.5. 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 Goahead Embedthis
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

The asn1_signature function in asn1.c in Cameron Hamilton-Rich axTLS through 2.1.5 has a Buffer Overflow that allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a. 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 Axtls +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in tls_verify_crl in ProFTPD through 1.3.6b. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference OpenSSL +5
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

relay_open in kernel/relay.c in the Linux kernel through 5.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (such as relay blockage) by triggering a NULL alloc_percpu result. 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 +13
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

When GNOME Dia before 2019-11-27 is launched with a filename argument that is not a valid codepoint in the current encoding, it enters an endless loop, thus endlessly writing text to stdout. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Fedora Leap +4
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

illumos, as used in OmniOS Community Edition before r151030y, allows a kernel crash via an application with multiple threads calling sendmsg concurrently over a single socket, because. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Omnios Omniosce
NVD
EPSS 17% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A heap overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel, all versions 3.x.x and 4.x.x before 4.18.0, in Marvell WiFi chip driver. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +9
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the Linux kernel, version kernel-2.6.32, in Marvell WiFi chip driver. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +7
NVD
EPSS 8% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

A heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in the Linux kernel, all versions 3.x.x and 4.x.x before 4.18.0, in Marvell WiFi chip driver. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +11
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

In Octopus Deploy before 2019.10.6, an authenticated user with TeamEdit permission could send a malformed Team API request that bypasses input validation and causes an application level denial of. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Octopus Deploy Octopus
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An attacker may use a specially crafted message to force Relion 650 series (versions 1.3.0.5 and prior) or Relion 670 series (versions 1.2.3.18, 2.0.0.11, 2.1.0.1 and prior) to reboot, which could. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Relion 650 Firmware Relion 670 Firmware +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

On BIG-IP 15.0.0-15.0.1, 14.1.0-14.1.0.5, 14.0.0-14.0.0.4, 13.1.0-13.1.1.5, 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, and 11.5.1-11.6.5, under certain conditions, TMM may consume excessive resources when processing traffic. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Big Ip Application Security Manager +13
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

On F5 SSL Orchestrator 15.0.0-15.0.1 and 14.0.0-14.1.2, TMM may crash when processing SSLO data in a service-chaining configuration. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Ssl Orchestrator F5
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An Improper Input Validation vulnerability in the SSL VPN portal of FortiOS versions 6.2.1 and below, and 6.0.6 and below may allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to crash the SSL VPN service by. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Fortinet Fortios
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

SQLite 3.30.1 mishandles pExpr->y.pTab, as demonstrated by the TK_COLUMN case in sqlite3ExprCodeTarget in expr.c. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Oracle +8
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In text_to_glyphs in sushi-font-widget.c in gnome-font-viewer 3.34.0, there is a NULL pointer dereference while parsing a TTF font file that lacks a name section (due to a g_strconcat call that. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Gnome +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 9% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel, version kernel-2.6.32, in Marvell WiFi chip driver. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +11
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Ruby +3
NVD
EPSS 9% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Squid 3.x and 4.x through 4.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability could allow attackers to write data beyond allocated buffer boundaries leading to code execution or crashes.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +8
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 11 through 12.4 when building Nested GraphQL queries. 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 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

With pipelining enabled each incoming query on a TCP connection requires a similar resource allocation to a query received via UDP or via TCP without pipelining enabled. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Fedora Bind +2
NVD
EPSS 42% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC THREAT Act Now

An integer overflow in parse_mqtt in mongoose.c in Cesanta Mongoose 6.16 allows an attacker to achieve remote DoS (infinite loop), or possibly cause an out-of-bounds write, by sending a crafted MQTT. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

An error-handling flaw was found in python-ecdsa before version 0.13.3. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Python Python Ecdsa
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in tls_verify_crl in ProFTPD before 1.3.6. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Proftpd
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability in the web management interface of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to perform an unauthorized system reset. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Cisco +2
NVD
EPSS 46% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC THREAT This Month

A vulnerability in the web interface of Cisco Wireless LAN Controller Software could allow a low-privileged, authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on an affected. 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 Cisco Wireless Lan Controller Software
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Use after free in IndexedDB in Google Chrome prior to 73.0.3683.86 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Chrome Google +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

sqlite3Select in select.c in SQLite 3.30.1 allows a crash if a sub-select uses both DISTINCT and window functions, and also has certain ORDER BY usage. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Oracle Siemens +5
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

IBM Spectrum Protect Backup-Archive Client 7.1 and 8.1 may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to a timing issue between client and server TCP/IP communications. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service IBM Spectrum Protect Backup Archive Client
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The use of `String.to_atom/1` in PowAssent is susceptible to denial of service attacks. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. This Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability could allow attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources.

Denial Of Service Powassent Powauth
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Use after free in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Chrome Google +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Use after free in media in Google Chrome on Android prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Chrome Google +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Use after free in Mojo in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Chrome Google +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.6
CRITICAL Act Now

Use after free in media in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.75 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform a sandbox escape via a crafted HTML page. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.6), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Chrome Google +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

Use after free in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 76.0.3809.132 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Chrome Google +2
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