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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 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An error within the "parse_minolta()" function (dcraw/dcraw.c) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.11 can be exploited to trigger an infinite loop via a specially crafted file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Canonical Ubuntu Linux +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An error within the "nikon_coolscan_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.9 can be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

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

An error within the "leaf_hdr_load_raw()" function (internal/dcraw_common.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.8 can be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Red Hat +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

An error within the "LibRaw::unpack()" function (src/libraw_cxx.cpp) in LibRaw versions prior to 0.18.7 can be exploited to trigger a NULL pointer dereference. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Debian +8
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A problem within the IBM MQ 9.0.2, 9.0.3, 9.0.4, 9.0.5, and 9.1.0.0 Console REST API Could allow attackers to execute a denial of service attack preventing users from logging into the MQ Console REST. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

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

The Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver for custom Linux kernels on Xiaomi daisy-o-oss and daisy-p-oss as used in Mi A2 Lite and RedMi6 pro devices through 2018-08-27 has a NULL pointer dereference in. 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 Mi A2 Lite Firmware +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 6% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

ext/imap/php_imap.c in PHP 5.x and 7.x before 7.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty string in the message argument. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

PHP Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

An issue was discovered in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library (aka libbfd), as distributed in GNU Binutils through 2.31. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Integer Overflow Binutils +3
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 8.1
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in Amazon Web Services (AWS) FreeRTOS through 1.3.1, FreeRTOS up to V10.0.1 (with FreeRTOS+TCP), and WITTENSTEIN WHIS Connect middleware TCP/IP component. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

RCE Denial Of Service Integer Overflow +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Freeware Advanced Audio Coder +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Freeware Advanced Audio Coder +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Freeware Advanced Audio Coder +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Freeware Advanced Audio Coder +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Freeware Advanced Audio Coder +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An invalid memory address dereference was discovered in the huffcode function (libfaac/huff2.c) in Freeware Advanced Audio Coder (FAAC) 1.29.9.2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Freeware Advanced Audio Coder +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

In Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0, the svg_run_image function in svg/svg-run.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (href_att NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted svg. 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 Mupdf +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

In Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0, svg/svg-run.c allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (recursive calls followed by a fitz/xml.c fz_xml_att crash from excessive stack consumption) via a crafted. 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 Mupdf Artifex
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

Local attackers can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow on vulnerable installations of Antiy-AVL ATool security management v1.0.0.22. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

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

cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free function incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with a "free(): invalid. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Use After Free vulnerability could allow attackers to access freed memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +3
NVD
EPSS 25% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH THREAT Act Now

NUUO NVRmini2 Network Video Recorder firmware through 3.9.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow), resulting in ability to read camera feeds. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

RCE Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service +2
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC Act Now

The CAF demuxer in modules/demux/caf.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 3.0.4 may read memory from an uninitialized pointer when processing magic cookies in CAF files, because a ReadKukiChunk() cast. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Memory Corruption Debian +3
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM This Month

There is an out-of-bounds write vulnerability on Huawei P20 smartphones with versions before 8.1.0.171(C00). Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

A nullptr dereference in WebAssembly in Google Chrome prior to 66.0.3359.117 allowed a remote attacker to potentially perform out of bounds memory access 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 +7
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r340854) and 11.2-RELEASE-p5, the NFS server lacks a bounds check in the READDIRPLUS NFS request. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Freebsd
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r340854) and 11.2-RELEASE-p5, an integer overflow error can occur when handling the client address length field in an NFSv4 request. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Integer Overflow Freebsd
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

opmov in libr/asm/p/asm_x86_nz.c in radare2 before 3.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read) via crafted x86 assembly data, as demonstrated by rasm2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

getToken in libr/asm/p/asm_x86_nz.c in radare2 before 3.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer over-read) via crafted x86 assembly data, as demonstrated by rasm2. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The function WavpackPackInit in pack_utils.c in libwavpack.a in WavPack through 5.1.0 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (resource exhaustion caused by an infinite loop) via a crafted wav. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Canonical Fedora +5
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

In LibSass prior to 3.5.5, functions inside ast.cpp for IMPLEMENT_AST_OPERATORS expansion allow attackers to cause a denial-of-service resulting from stack consumption via a crafted sass file, as. 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 Libsass Sass Lang
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

In LibSass prior to 3.5.5, Sass::Eval::operator()(Sass::Binary_Expression*) inside eval.cpp allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service resulting from stack consumption via a crafted sass file,. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Libsass Sass Lang
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL Act Now

A vulnerability in the proxy service of Brocade Fabric OS versions before 8.2.1, 8.1.2f, 8.0.2f, 7.4.2d could allow remote unauthenticated attackers to obtain sensitive information and possibly cause. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Broadcom Fabric Operating System
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH This Week

In LibSass 3.5.5, a use-after-free vulnerability exists in the SharedPtr class in SharedPtr.cpp (or SharedPtr.hpp) that may cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified. 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 +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

In inspect.cpp in LibSass 3.5.5, a high memory footprint caused by an endless loop (containing a Sass::Inspect::operator()(Sass::String_Quoted*) stack frame) may cause a Denial of Service via crafted. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Libsass Sass Lang
NVD GitHub
EPSS 10% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC) prior to IMC PLAT 7.3 (E0605P06) is vulnerable to a remote denial of service via dbman Opcode 10003 'Filename'. 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 HP +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM This Month

A potential denial-of-service issue in the Proxygen handling of invalid HTTP2 settings which can cause the server to spend disproportionate resources. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Facebook Hhvm
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In LibSass 3.5.5, a NULL Pointer Dereference in the function Sass::Selector_List::populate_extends in SharedPtr.hpp (used by ast.cpp and ast_selectors.cpp) may cause a Denial of Service (application. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Libsass +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.7
MEDIUM POC This Month

The server in LiteSpeed OpenLiteSpeed before 1.5.0 RC6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact by creating a symlink through which. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

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

Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Response Splitting') vulnerability exists in the embedded web servers in all Modicon M340, Premium, Quantum PLCs and BMXNOR0200 where. 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 Schneider Electric Modicom M340 Firmware +3
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

In modules/HELPBOT_MODULE in Budabot 0.6 through 4.0, lax syntax validation allows remote attackers to perform a command injection attack against the PHP daemon with a crafted command, resulting in a. 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.

PHP Denial Of Service Command Injection +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

In Artifex MuPDF 1.14.0, there is an infinite loop in the function svg_dev_end_tile in fitz/svg-device.c, as demonstrated by mutool. 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 Debian Debian Linux +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is a heap-based buffer over-read at writer.c (function: write_png_to_file) in libsixel 1.8.2 that will cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

There is a heap-based buffer overflow at fromsixel.c (function: image_buffer_resize) in libsixel 1.8.2 that will cause a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact. 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 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is an illegal address access at fromsixel.c (function: sixel_decode_raw_impl) in libsixel 1.8.2 that will cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is a heap-based buffer over-read at stb_image_write.h (function: stbi_write_png_to_mem) in libsixel 1.8.2 that will cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is a heap-based buffer over-read at wav.c in wav_write_header in libsndfile 1.0.28 that will 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.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +4
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is a NULL pointer dereference at function sixel_helper_set_additional_message (status.c) in libsixel 1.8.2 that will 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 Null Pointer Dereference Libsixel +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is a heap-based buffer over-read at stb_image.h (function: stbi__tga_load) in libsixel 1.8.2 that will cause a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

There is an illegal address access at asm/preproc.c (function: is_mmacro) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc16 that will cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) because a certain. 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 Netwide Assembler Nasm
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

In The Sleuth Kit (TSK) through 4.6.4, hfs_cat_traverse in tsk/fs/hfs.c does not properly determine when a key length is too large, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (SEGV on. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. This Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability could allow attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +6
NVD GitHub
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

FreeRDP prior to version 2.0.0-rc4 contains several Out-Of-Bounds Reads in the NTLM Authentication module that results in a Denial of Service (segfault). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Debian +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive and PowerDNS Recursor 4.0.0 up to 4.1.4 inclusive are vulnerable to a packet cache pollution via crafted query that can lead to denial of. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Powerdns Recursor +1
NVD
EPSS 6% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Powerdns Recursor +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.1
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in libsndfile 1.0.28. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.1), 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 +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An issue was discovered in libsndfile 1.0.28. 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 +4
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4, the ZigBee ZCL dissector could crash. 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 +1
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the PVFS dissector could crash. 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 +2
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

In Wireshark 2.6.0 to 2.6.4 and 2.4.0 to 2.4.10, the MMSE dissector could go into an infinite loop. 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 +1
NVD
EPSS 41% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Slowloris HTTP Denial of Service: An attacker can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by sending headers very slowly keeping. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, 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 Node.js Suse +4
NVD
EPSS 10% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers: By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, 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 Node.js Red Hat +8
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in QTS 4.3.5 build 20181013, QTS 4.3.4 build 20181008, QTS 4.3.3 build 20180829, QTS 4.2.6 build 20180829 and earlier versions could allow remote attackers to. 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 Qnap +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM This Month

Samba from version 4.7.0 has a vulnerability that allows a user in a Samba AD domain to crash the KDC when Samba is built in the non-default MIT Kerberos configuration. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Samba
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 4.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Samba from version 4.9.0 and before version 4.9.3 is vulnerable to a NULL pointer de-reference. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.4), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. This NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability could allow attackers to crash the application by dereferencing a null pointer.

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

Samba from version 4.0.0 and before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, 4.9.3 is vulnerable to a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), 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 Debian +4
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Samba from version 4.3.0 and before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7 and 4.9.3 are vulnerable to a denial of service. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. This Use After Free vulnerability could allow attackers to access freed memory to execute arbitrary code or crash the application.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +5
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in Samba's LDAP server before versions 4.7.12, 4.8.7, and 4.9.3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

Denial Of Service Debian Canonical +3
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 issue in WLAN host driver can lead to device reboot. 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, while list traversal in LPM status driver for clean up, use after free vulnerability may. 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, due to a race condition, a Use After Free condition can occur in Audio. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Google +4
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

Exiv2::isoSpeed in easyaccess.cpp in Exiv2 v0.27-RC2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted file. 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 Exiv2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The Linux kernel before 4.15-rc8 was found to be vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference bug in the __netlink_ns_capable() function in the net/netlink/af_netlink.c file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +8
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An issue was discovered in JasPer 2.0.14. 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 Debian +10
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An issue was discovered in JasPer 2.0.14. 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 Debian Debian Linux +7
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC PATCH This Month

In Exiv2 0.26 and previous versions, PngChunk::readRawProfile in pngchunk_int.cpp may cause a denial of service (application crash due to a heap-based buffer over-read) via a crafted PNG 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 Information Disclosure +9
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC This Week

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the function PdfTranslator::setTarget() in pdftranslator.cpp of PoDoFo 0.9.6, while creating the PdfXObject, as demonstrated by podofoimpose. 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.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Podofo +1
NVD
EPSS 3% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC Act Now

TP-Link TL-WR886N 7.0 1.1.0 devices allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Tlb Load Exception) via crafted DNS packets to port 53/udp. 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 TP-Link +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC This Week

An issue was discovered in Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder 2 (FAAD2) 2.8.1. 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 +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 3% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

An issue was discovered in libsndfile 1.0.28. 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 Debian +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The vcpu_scan_ioapic function in arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) via crafted system calls that. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

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

kvm_pv_send_ipi in arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c in the Linux kernel through 4.19.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and BUG) via crafted system calls that reach a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +1
NVD
EPSS 5% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

ext/standard/var_unserializer.c in PHP 5.x through 7.1.24 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an unserialize call for the com, dotnet, or variant class. 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.

PHP Denial Of Service Deserialization
NVD
EPSS 4% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

ext/standard/var.c in PHP 5.x through 7.1.24 on Windows allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) because com and com_safearray_proxy return NULL. 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.

PHP Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference +1
NVD
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

FoxitReader.exe in Foxit Reader 9.3.0.10826 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Break instruction exception and application crash) via TIFF data because of a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), 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 +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

FoxitReader.exe in Foxit Reader 9.3.0.10826 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Break instruction exception and application crash) via BMP data because of a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), 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 +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

FoxitReader.exe in Foxit Reader 9.3.0.10826 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read, access violation, and application crash) via TIFF data because of a. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), 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 +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

IBM API Connect 2018.1 through 2018.3.7 could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service due to not setting limits on JSON payload size. 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 IBM Api Connect
NVD
EPSS 1% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

The ansilove_ansi function in loaders/ansi.c in libansilove 1.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted file. 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 +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

The u3d plugin 9.3.0.10809 (aka plugins\U3DBrowser.fpi) in FoxitReader.exe in Foxit Reader 9.3.0.10826 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or obtain sensitive. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

The u3d plugin 9.3.0.10809 (aka plugins\U3DBrowser.fpi) in FoxitReader.exe in Foxit Reader 9.3.0.10826 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or obtain sensitive. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

The u3d plugin 9.3.0.10809 (aka plugins\U3DBrowser.fpi) in FoxitReader.exe in Foxit Reader 9.3.0.10826 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or obtain sensitive. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 2% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

The u3d plugin 9.3.0.10809 (aka plugins\U3DBrowser.fpi) in FoxitReader.exe in Foxit Reader 9.3.0.10826 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) or obtain sensitive. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +3
NVD GitHub
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