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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 (40240)

EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

libpff_item_tree_create_node in libpff_item_tree.c in libpff before experimental-20180714 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted file, related to. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Libpff Libpff Project
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Hancom Office 2018 10.0.0.8214 and earlier, Hancom Office NEO 9.6.1.10472 and earlier, Hancom Office 2014 9.1.1.4540 and earlier, Hancom Office 2010 8.5.8.1724 and earlier versions have a heap. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is 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 +6
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the parse_makernote function of dcraw_common.cpp in LibRaw 0.19.1. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), 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 Memory Corruption +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_main.c in QEMU does not implement a read operation (such as uar_read by analogy to uar_write), which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Canonical +4
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

QEMU can have an infinite loop in hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_dev_ring.c because return values are not checked (and -1 is mishandled). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Canonical Ubuntu Linux +1
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

hw/rdma/vmw/pvrdma_cmd.c in QEMU allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference or excessive memory allocation) in create_cq_ring or create_qp_rings. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Canonical +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

libarchive version commit 379867ecb330b3a952fb7bfa7bffb7bbd5547205 onwards (release v3.3.0 onwards) contains a CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in ACL parser -. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Fedora +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-416: Use After Free vulnerability in RAR decoder -. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +13
NVD GitHub
EPSS 5% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

libarchive version commit 416694915449219d505531b1096384f3237dd6cc onwards (release v3.1.0 onwards) contains a CWE-415: Double Free vulnerability in RAR decoder -. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Debian Red Hat +9
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

OpenKMIP PyKMIP version All versions before 0.8.0 contains a CWE 399: Resource Management Errors (similar issue to CVE-2015-5262) vulnerability in PyKMIP server that can result in DOS: the server can. 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 Pykmip
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, A use after free condition and an out-of-bounds access can occur in the DIAG driver. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Google +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In all android releases(Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, QRD Android) from CAF using the linux kernel, A use after free condition can occur in the SPS driver which can lead to error in kernel. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Google +4
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

autopsy version <= 4.9.0 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in CaseMetadata XML Parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port scanning. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

UML Designer version <= 8.0.0 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in XML parser for plugins that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port scanning. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.0
CRITICAL Act Now

bw-calendar-engine version <= bw-calendar-engine-3.12.0 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in IscheduleClient XML Parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

KeePassDX version <= 2.5.0.0beta17 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in kdbx file parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port scanning. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.0
CRITICAL Act Now

runelite version <= runelite-parent-1.4.23 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Man in the middle runscape services call that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

ZoneMinder version <= 1.32.2 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in User-controlled parameter that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, remote code execution. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code through malicious serialized objects.

RCE Denial Of Service Deserialization +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 6% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

ZoneMinder version <= 1.32.2 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in User-controlled parameter that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, remote code execution. 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 Denial Of Service Deserialization +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

K9Mail version <= v5.600 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in WebDAV response parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port scanning. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

XR3Player version <= V3.124 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Playlist parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port scanning. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.0
CRITICAL Act Now

Anyplace version before commit 80359b4 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Man in the middle on map API call that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.0
CRITICAL Act Now

FrostWire version <= frostwire-desktop-6.7.4-build-272 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Man in the middle on update that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

Ubilling version <= 0.9.2 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in user-controlled parameter that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, remote code execution. 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 Denial Of Service Deserialization +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

FreeCol version <= nightly-2018-08-22 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in FreeColXMLReader parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

MegaMek version < v0.45.1 contains a Other/Unknown vulnerability in Object Stream Connection that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, remote code execution. 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 Deserialization +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

exist version <= 5.0.0-RC4 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in XML Parser for REST Server that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port scanning. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL PATCH Act Now

codelibs fess version before commit faa265b contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in GSA XML file parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF, port. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL Act Now

MicroMathematics version before commit 5c05ac8 contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in SMathStudio files that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of service, SSRF,. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 10.0
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

neo4j-contrib neo4j-apoc-procedures version before commit 45bc09c contains a XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in XML Parser that can result in Disclosure of confidential data, denial of. Rated critical severity (CVSS 10.0), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service SSRF XXE +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

IBM DataPower Gateways 7.1, 7.2, 7.5, 7.5.1, 7.5.2, 7.6, and 7.7 and IBM MQ Appliance are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of full file system. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service IBM Datapower Gateway
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

wbook_addworksheet in workbook.c in libexcel.a in libexcel 0.01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV) via a long second argument. 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.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Microsoft +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

LibVNC before commit 4a21bbd097ef7c44bb000c3bd0907f96a10e4ce7 contains null pointer dereference in VNC client code that can result DoS. 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 Debian +5
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

LibVNC before commit c3115350eb8bb635d0fdb4dbbb0d0541f38ed19c contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in VNC client code. 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 Canonical +4
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in PSPP 1.2.0. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

wbook_addworksheet in workbook.c in libexcel.a in libexcel 0.01 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV) via a long name. 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.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Microsoft +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

There is a stack-based buffer over-read in the jsfNameFromString function of jsflash.c in Espruino 2V00, leading to a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact via a crafted js file. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Debian +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ifilter_bank of libfaad/filtbank.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

There is a stack-based buffer underflow in the third instance of the calculate_gain function in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

There is a stack-based buffer overflow in the third instance of the calculate_gain function in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

A NULL pointer dereference was discovered in ic_predict of libfaad/ic_predict.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

There is a stack-based buffer underflow in the third instance of the calculate_gain function in libfaad/sbr_hfadj.c in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.8. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

In LibSass 3.5.5, a NULL Pointer Dereference in the function Sass::Eval::operator()(Sass::Supports_Operator*) in eval.cpp may cause a Denial of Service (application crash) via a crafted sass input. 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 Libsass +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

In GraphicsMagick 1.3.31, the ReadDIBImage function of coders/dib.c has a vulnerability allowing a crash and denial of service via a dib file that is crafted to appear with direct pixel values and. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

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

An issue was discovered in Bento4 1.5.1-627. 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 2% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20181209 Q8 on 32-bit platforms, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the ReadBMPImage function of bmp.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +5
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

In GraphicsMagick 1.4 snapshot-20181209 Q8, there is a heap-based buffer overflow in the WriteTGAImage function of tga.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted image file,. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM POC This Month

A NULL pointer dereference in dhd_prot_txdata_write_flush in drivers/net/wireless/bcmdhd4358/dhd_msgbuf.c in the bcmdhd4358 Wi-Fi driver on the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920F G920FXXU5EQH7 allows an. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 4.19.9. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.8), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability could allow attackers to cause denial of service by exhausting system resources.

Denial Of Service Linux Debian +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Google gVisor before 2018-08-22 reuses a pagetable in a different level with the paging-structure cache intact, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service ("physical address not valid". Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Google Gvisor
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows 11.1 (includes DB2 Connect Server) contains a denial of service vulnerability. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service IBM Microsoft +1
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

The crypto/x509 package of Go before 1.10.6 and 1.11.x before 1.11.3 does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Golang Go +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH This Week

Denial of Service through Resource Depletion vulnerability in the agent in non-Windows McAfee Agent (MA) 5.0.0 through 5.0.6, 5.5.0, and 5.5.1 allows local users to cause DoS, unexpected behavior, or. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.

RCE Denial Of Service Microsoft +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Improper directory permissions in the installer for the Intel(R) System Defense Utility (all versions) may allow authenticated users to potentially enable a denial of service via local access. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Intel System Defense Utility
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Improper memory handling in Intel QuickAssist Technology for Linux (all versions) may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Intel +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Improper configuration of hardware access in Intel QuickAssist Technology for Linux (all versions) may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable a denial of service via local access. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Intel +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

v9fs_wstat in hw/9pfs/9p.c in QEMU allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (crash) because of a race condition during file renaming. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.7).

Denial Of Service Race Condition Debian +8
NVD
EPSS 7% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Zoho ManageEngine ADAudit before 5.1 build 5120 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via the 'Domain Name' field when adding a new domain. 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 Memory Corruption +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.2
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 412-1 DP V7 (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 412-2 DP V7 (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 414-2 DP V7 (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 CPU. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.2), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Siemens Jwt Attack +4
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 412-1 DP V7 (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 412-2 DP V7 (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 CPU 414-2 DP V7 (All versions), SIMATIC S7-400 CPU. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Siemens Simatic S7 400 Firmware +4
NVD
EPSS 7% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

An issue was discovered in dns.c in HAProxy through 1.8.14. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Canonical +3
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

There is an infinite loop in Exiv2::Jp2Image::encodeJp2Header of jp2image.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Exiv2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::encodeJp2Header of jp2image.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is a SEGV in Exiv2::Internal::TiffParserWorker::findPrimaryGroups of tiffimage_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC3. 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.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Debian +8
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the Exiv2::tEXtToDataBuf function of pngimage.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC3. 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.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An issue was discovered in EnsureCapacity in Core/Ap4Array.h in Bento4 1.5.1-627. 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 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A denial of service vulnerability exists when Windows improperly handles objects in memory, aka "Windows Denial of Service Vulnerability." This affects Windows 10, Windows Server 2019. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Windows Server 2019 +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A Denial Of Service vulnerability exists when Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service fails to validate certain function values, aka "Connected User Experiences and Telemetry Service Denial. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Windows Server 2016 +2
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A denial of service vulnerability exists when .NET Framework improperly handles special web requests, aka ".NET Framework Denial Of Service Vulnerability." This affects Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6,. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Net Framework
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Use After Free in Remote logging (which is disabled by default) in McAfee McAfee Agent (MA) 5.x prior to 5.6.0 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to cause a Denial of Service and potentially a. 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 Use After Free +3
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

An integer overflow in path handling lead to a use after free in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 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 +14
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Incorrect handing of paths leading to a use after free in Skia in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 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 +8
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

Incorrect handling of stylesheets leading to a use after free in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80 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 +8
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

IBM DataPower Gateway 7.1.0.0 through 7.1.0.19, 7.2.0.0 through 7.2.0.16, 7.5.0.0 through 7.5.0.10, 7.5.1.0 through 7.5.1.9, 7.5.2.0 through 7.5.2.9, and 7.6.0.0 through 7.6.0.2 and IBM MQ Appliance. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service IBM Mq Appliance +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Mishandling of '>' on the Jooan JA-Q1H Wi-Fi camera with firmware 21.0.0.91 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) via certain ONVIF methods such as CreateUsers,. 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 Jooan Ja Q1H Wi Fi Camera Firmware Qacctv
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Mishandling of an empty string on the Jooan JA-Q1H Wi-Fi camera with firmware 21.0.0.91 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reboot) via the ONVIF GetStreamUri method and. 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 Jooan Ja Q1H Wi Fi Camera Firmware Qacctv
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

The nxfs.sys driver in the DokanFS library 0.6.0 in NoMachine before 6.4.6 on Windows 10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (BSOD) because uninitialized memory can be read. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Nomachine +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL Act Now

Accusoft PrizmDoc HTML5 Document Viewer before 13.5 contains an XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability, allowing an attacker to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (resource. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service XXE Prizmdoc +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Jenkins 2.153 and earlier, LTS 2.138.3 and earlier in CronTab.java that allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to have a request handling thread. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Java Jenkins +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

The _bfd_generic_read_minisymbols function in syms.c in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils 2.31, has a memory leak via a crafted ELF file, leading. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Binutils Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller +4
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

In Libav 12.3, there is a floating point exception in the range_decode_culshift function (called from range_decode_bits) in libavcodec/apedec.c that will lead to remote denial of service via crafted. 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 Libav
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Anker Nebula Capsule Pro NBUI_M1_V2.1.9 devices allow attackers to cause a denial of service (reboot of the underlying Android 7.1.2 operating system) via a crafted application that sends data to. 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 Google Nebula Capsule Projector Firmware +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x on Intel x86 platforms allowing guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) because Xen does not work around Intel's mishandling of. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Debian Intel +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing x86 PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because of an interpretation conflict for. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Debian Debian Linux +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.6
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.11.x allowing 64-bit PV guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) because #GP[0] can occur after a non-canonical address is passed to the. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.6).

Denial Of Service Debian Citrix +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11.x allowing x86 guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS hang) because the p2m lock remains unavailable indefinitely in certain error conditions. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Xen
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.11 allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) or possibly gain host OS privileges because x86 IOREQ server resource accounting (for. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8).

Denial Of Service Xen
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In pppol2tp_connect, there is possible memory corruption due to a use after free. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

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

An integer overflow error within the "parse_qt()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.12 can be exploited to trigger an infinite loop via a specially crafted Apple. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Integer Overflow Apple +3
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