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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 (39897)

EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

dpkg-deb fails to properly validate zstd-compressed .deb archives during decompression, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger infinite loops that exhaust CPU resources on Debian systems. This denial of service condition affects the package management system without requiring user interaction or elevated privileges. No patch is currently available for this vulnerability.

Denial Of Service Debian
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

Mercurius versions prior to 16.8.0 fail to validate GraphQL subscription query depth limits over WebSocket connections, allowing remote attackers to bypass depth restrictions that are properly enforced for HTTP queries. An attacker can exploit this to submit arbitrarily nested subscription queries that cause denial of service through exponential data resolution on schemas with recursive types. A patch is available in version 16.8.0.

Denial Of Service Mercurius Mercurius Project
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Coredns versions up to 1.14.2 contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the DNS server by sending specially crafted DNS queries (CVSS 7.5).

Denial Of Service Coredns Coredns Io
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Denial of service in SVGO versions 2.1.0-2.8.0, 3.0.0-3.3.2, and before 4.0.1 allows unauthenticated attackers to crash the Node.js process through XML entity expansion attacks, with a minimal 811-byte payload triggering heap exhaustion. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, and no patch is currently available. Affected users of SVGO, Node.js, and Golang implementations should restrict input sources until updates are released.

Denial Of Service Node.js Svgo
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Uncontrolled-recursion denial of service in FasterXML jackson-core 3.0.0 through 3.0.x lets a remote attacker crash JSON-processing services by submitting a deeply nested JSON document. The UTF8DataInputJsonParser (DataInput sources) and ReaderBasedJsonParser fail to enforce the StreamReadConstraints maxNestingDepth limit (default 500), so excessive nesting drives a StackOverflowError. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS is low (0.06%), but the bug is trivially triggerable against any service that parses untrusted JSON with these parsers; fixed in 3.1.0.

Denial Of Service Jackson Core Fasterxml
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Prototype pollution in oRPC before 1.13.6. PoC and patch available.

Authentication Bypass RCE Denial Of Service +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Acronis Cyber Protect 17 on Linux and Windows versions prior to build 41186 is vulnerable to denial of service through improper input validation in authentication logging functions. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the application or render it unavailable without requiring user interaction. No patch is currently available for this vulnerability.

Windows Denial Of Service Linux +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Openclaw versions up to 2026.2.14 is affected by allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CVSS 7.5).

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

OpenClaw versions up to 2026.2.13 is affected by allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CVSS 7.5).

Denial Of Service Openclaw
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH PATCH This Week

Arbitrary file write in OpenClaw prior to version 2026.2.12 allows authenticated gateway clients to bypass path validation on the sessionFile parameter and write transcript data to any location on the host filesystem. An attacker with valid credentials can repeatedly append data to arbitrary files, potentially corrupting configurations or exhausting disk space to cause denial of service. A patch is available.

Denial Of Service Openclaw
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.3
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

OpenClaw versions before 2026.2.1 fail to properly validate access controls in the Twitch plugin when role restrictions are not configured, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger agent dispatch through Twitch chat mentions. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, enabling attackers to invoke the agent pipeline and potentially cause unintended actions or resource exhaustion. Organizations running affected versions with the Twitch plugin enabled should apply the available patch immediately.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service AI / ML +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

OliveTin versions prior to 3000.11.0 suffer from broken access control allowing unauthenticated users to invoke the KillAction RPC endpoint and terminate running shell command executions, bypassing authentication restrictions. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, enabling remote denial of service attacks against legitimate administrative actions. The vulnerability affects OliveTin deployments regardless of authentication settings and has been remediated in version 3000.11.0 and later.

Denial Of Service Olivetin Suse
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

OliveTin versions prior to 3000.10.3 are vulnerable to unauthenticated denial-of-service attacks when OAuth2 authentication is enabled, allowing remote attackers to crash the application by sending concurrent requests to the login endpoint. The vulnerability stems from unsynchronized access to shared state during OAuth2 processing, triggering a Go runtime panic. Public exploit code exists for this high-severity flaw, which is patched in version 3000.10.3 and later.

Denial Of Service Golang Olivetin +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

OliveTin versions prior to 3000.10.2 are vulnerable to unauthenticated denial of service through the PasswordHash API endpoint, which lacks request throttling or authentication controls and allows attackers to trigger excessive memory allocation via concurrent hashing requests. An attacker can exhaust container memory by sending multiple parallel requests, causing service degradation or complete outage. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, and a patch is available in version 3000.10.2 and later.

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

Traefik versions before 2.11.38 and 3.6.9 allow remote attackers to cause denial of service by sending incomplete TLS records to TCP routers, which causes the TLS handshake process to hang indefinitely while holding connections open. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by opening many stalled connections in parallel to exhaust file descriptors and goroutines, degrading or disabling the proxy service.

Denial Of Service Traefik
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Internet Security contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to deletion of protected files or directories and can lead to local privilege escal (CVSS 7.8).

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Internet Security +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Avira Internet Security's Software Updater fails to validate symbolic links when deleting files during updates, allowing a local attacker to redirect SYSTEM-level file deletion operations to arbitrary targets. An authenticated local user can exploit this improper link resolution to delete critical system files, potentially achieving privilege escalation, denial of service, or compromising system integrity. No patch is currently available.

Privilege Escalation Denial Of Service Internet Security +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Eclipse Jetty 12.0.0 through 12.0.31 and 12.1.0 through 12.1.5 suffer from a denial-of-service vulnerability in GzipHandler where decompressor resources leak when processing gzip-compressed requests that generate uncompressed responses. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server memory by repeatedly sending compressed requests, causing service degradation or unavailability. No patch is currently available.

Denial Of Service Jetty Eclipse
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

cpp-httplib is a C++11 single-file header-only cross platform HTTP/HTTPS library. [CVSS 7.5 HIGH]

Denial Of Service Cpp Httplib Suse +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH This Week

Denial of service in Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD Remote Access SSL VPN functionality allows authenticated attackers to exhaust device memory by sending specially crafted packets, forcing a device reload. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input validation on user-supplied data and requires valid VPN credentials to exploit. No patch is currently available.

Denial Of Service Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH This Week

Denial of service in Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD Remote Access SSL VPN allows unauthenticated remote attackers to exhaust device memory through malformed packets, causing the VPN service to become unresponsive. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input validation on the SSL VPN server and currently has no available patch. While the management interface remains accessible, new VPN connections cannot be established during an attack.

Denial Of Service Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH This Week

Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD devices are vulnerable to a denial of service attack through the Remote Access SSL VPN feature, where authenticated attackers can trigger unvalidated input processing in the Lua interpreter to force device reloads. The vulnerability stems from insufficient input validation in the Lua interpreter and can be exploited by sending specially crafted HTTP packets over an existing VPN connection. No patch is currently available for this HIGH severity issue (CVSS 7.7).

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Cisco +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH This Week

Cisco Secure Firewall ASA devices fail to properly manage embryonic connection limits during TCP SYN flood attacks, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to block all incoming TCP connections including management access and VPN services. An attacker can exploit this denial-of-service vulnerability by sending crafted traffic streams to management or data interfaces, effectively isolating the device from legitimate network access. No patch is currently available for this HIGH severity vulnerability.

Denial Of Service Cisco
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH This Week

Denial of service in Cisco ASA and FTD devices processing GCM-encrypted IKEv2 IPsec traffic results from inadequate memory allocation, allowing authenticated remote attackers to trigger device reloads by sending specially crafted encrypted packets. An attacker with valid VPN credentials can exploit this vulnerability to render affected firewalls unavailable. No patch is currently available.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Cisco +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH This Week

Unauthenticated remote attackers can trigger a denial of service against Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD devices by sending crafted HTTP requests to the VPN web server, exploiting ineffective memory management to force device reloads. The vulnerability requires no authentication or user interaction and affects all network-exposed instances. No patch is currently available.

Denial Of Service Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance Software +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in Multer (Express.js multipart/form-data middleware) before version 2.1.1 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash a Node.js application by sending specially malformed multipart requests that trigger uncontrolled recursion and stack overflow. Affecting one of the most widely used file-upload middlewares in the Node.js/Express ecosystem, the flaw carries a CVSS 4.0 base score of 8.7 with availability-only impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the EPSS score is very low (0.06%, 18th percentile), but a vendor patch and Red Hat errata are available.

Denial Of Service Node.js Multer +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Remote denial of service attacks against DJI Mavic Mini, Spark, and Mini SE firmware versions 0.1.00.0500 and below can be executed over the network by exploiting the Enhanced-WiFi transmission subsystem without authentication. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, and no patch is currently available. An attacker can disrupt drone operations and connectivity by sending specially crafted wireless transmissions to affected devices.

Denial Of Service Mavic Mini Firmware Mini Se Firmware +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Remote attackers can inject arbitrary command-line arguments into bird-lg-go's traceroute module through unsanitized user input, enabling denial-of-service attacks that exhaust system resources. The vulnerability affects Golang and bird-lg-go installations prior to commit 6187a4e, and public exploit code exists. A patch is available to remediate this high-severity flaw.

Denial Of Service Golang Bird Lg Go
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Joserfc versions 1.6.2 and earlier fail to validate the PBES2 iteration count parameter in JWE tokens, allowing unauthenticated attackers to trigger CPU exhaustion by specifying arbitrarily large values in the p2c header field. An attacker can exploit this resource exhaustion vulnerability to cause denial of service against any system using the library to decrypt JWE tokens. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, and a patch is available.

Denial Of Service Python Joserfc +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.2
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Unbounded recursion in Underscore.js versions before 1.13.8 enables denial of service attacks when the _.flatten or _.isEqual functions process deeply nested untrusted data structures. An attacker can trigger stack overflow conditions by supplying specially crafted recursive input, causing affected applications to crash. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, and patches are available.

Denial Of Service Underscore
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

HP System Event Utility versions prior to 3.2.16 allow local authenticated users to corrupt system integrity and cause denial of service through arbitrary file writes with elevated privileges. An attacker with local access and valid credentials can leverage this vulnerability to modify critical files and disrupt system availability. No patch is currently available for affected installations.

Denial Of Service HP System Event Utility
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Django URL field validation triggers excessive Unicode normalization on Windows when processing certain malicious Unicode characters, enabling remote attackers to cause denial of service through crafted URL inputs. Affected versions include Django 6.0 before 6.0.3, 5.2 before 5.2.12, and 4.2 before 4.2.29, with potential impact to unsupported series 5.0.x, 4.1.x, and 3.2.x. A patch is available for all affected supported versions.

Denial Of Service Python Microsoft +2
NVD VulDB HeroDevs
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Out-of-bounds memory read in Exiv2 prior to version 0.28.8 causes denial of service through application crash when processing specially crafted image files with the preview extraction feature. The vulnerability requires specific command-line arguments (such as -pp) to trigger and affects all users running vulnerable Exiv2 versions for image metadata operations. A patch is available in version 0.28.8 and later.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Exiv2 +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.0
HIGH This Week

TP-Link Deco BE25 firmware versions 1.0 through 1.1.1 (Build 20250822) contain a path traversal vulnerability that allows authenticated adjacent network attackers to read arbitrary files or trigger denial of service without user interaction. The vulnerability affects the web module component and requires local network access with valid credentials to exploit. No patch is currently available for this high-severity flaw (CVSS 8.0).

Denial Of Service Path Traversal TP-Link +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH This Week

Authenticated validators in nimiq/core-rs-albatross prior to version 1.2.2 can crash validator nodes by submitting macro block proposals with mismatched body roots that pass verification but cause panics during processing. This vulnerability affects only validator nodes and requires the attacker to be an elected proposer with valid credentials. No patch is currently available, and there is no known workaround.

Denial Of Service Nimiq Proof Of Stake Nimiq
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Integer overflow in pillow_heif Python library before 1.3.0 leads to out-of-bounds read when processing HEIF images, potentially causing information disclosure or crashes. PoC and patch available.

Denial Of Service Python Information Disclosure +3
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in Multer (the Express/Node.js multipart/form-data middleware) before version 2.1.0 lets remote attackers exhaust server resources by submitting malformed multipart requests, crashing or hanging the upload-handling process. The flaw scores CVSS 4.0 8.7 with an availability-only impact and requires no authentication or user interaction; no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS rates near-term exploitation probability very low (0.06%, 17th percentile). A vendor patch (2.1.0) is available and Red Hat has shipped errata, but no workaround exists.

Denial Of Service Node.js Red Hat +2
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in Multer (Express.js multipart/form-data middleware) before version 2.1.0 lets remote unauthenticated attackers exhaust server resources by abruptly dropping the connection mid file-upload, leaving allocated resources unreleased. The flaw maps to CWE-772 (missing release of resource) and carries a CVSS 4.0 base score of 8.7 driven entirely by availability impact. There is no public exploit identified at time of analysis and the EPSS probability is very low (0.06%), but a fixed release (2.1.0) is available and no workarounds exist.

Denial Of Service Node.js File Upload +2
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Heap buffer overflow in Crypt::SysRandom::XS before version 0.010 allows denial of service through negative length parameter validation bypass in the random_bytes() function. When negative values are passed to the function, integer wraparound causes incorrect memory allocation and unbounded writes to heap memory, triggering application crashes. Exploitation requires attacker control over the length argument, which in typical usage is hardcoded, limiting practical attack scenarios.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Due to missing nil check, sending 0x0a-0x0f HTTP/2 frames will cause a running server to panic [CVSS 7.5 HIGH]

Denial Of Service Red Hat Suse
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Stack overflow denial of service in fast-xml-parser versions prior to 5.3.8 occurs when the XML builder is used with the preserveOrder option enabled, causing the application to crash. An attacker can trigger this vulnerability remotely by sending specially crafted XML input, resulting in service unavailability for applications using the affected library. A patch is available in version 5.3.8 and later.

Denial Of Service Stack Overflow Red Hat +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Minimatch versions prior to 10.2.3 (and earlier affected versions) suffer from ReDoS vulnerabilities in nested extglob patterns that generate regexps with catastrophic backtracking, allowing remote attackers to cause denial of service with minimal input. A 12-byte glob pattern like `*(*(*(a|b)))` combined with an 18-byte non-matching string can hang the application for 7+ seconds, with larger patterns stalling for minutes. Public exploit code exists and no patch is currently available, making this a critical risk for any application using the default minimatch API.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Minimatch +2
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Heap buffer over-read vulnerability in rldns DNS server version 1.3 allows remote attackers to trigger denial of service without authentication or user interaction. The flaw enables reading beyond allocated memory boundaries, causing the service to crash. Version 1.4 addresses this issue, though no patch is currently available for affected 1.3 deployments.

Denial Of Service Heap Overflow DNS
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.1
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Integer overflow in psd-tools Python library before 1.12.2 when processing malformed RLE-compressed PSD files leads to heap overflow. PoC and patch available.

Denial Of Service Python Adobe +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

TinyWeb versions prior to 2.02 are vulnerable to denial of service through memory exhaustion when unauthenticated attackers send HTTP POST requests with extremely large Content-Length headers, causing the server to allocate unbounded memory and crash. The vulnerability affects all organizations running vulnerable TinyWeb instances, and patch version 2.02 addresses it by implementing a 10MB maximum entity body size limit.

Denial Of Service Nginx Tinyweb +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

TinyWeb versions prior to 2.02 lack connection limits and request timeouts, enabling unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger denial of service through Slowloris attacks by maintaining numerous concurrent connections and transmitting data at minimal rates. The vulnerability affects all systems running vulnerable TinyWeb instances, with attackers capable of exhausting server resources and rendering services unavailable. A patch is available that implements connection limits and idle timeouts to mitigate the attack vector.

Denial Of Service Nginx Tinyweb +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

SQL injection in Fleet device management software before version 4.80.1 allows authenticated users to manipulate the order_key parameter and inject arbitrary SQL commands through improper identifier handling in ORDER BY clauses. An attacker with valid credentials can exploit this vulnerability to perform blind SQL injection attacks, potentially extracting sensitive database information or causing denial of service through resource exhaustion. No patch is currently available for this high-severity vulnerability affecting MySQL implementations.

Denial Of Service SQLi MySQL +3
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH POC This Week

Vikunja before version 2.0.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability in its backup restoration function that fails to validate file paths in ZIP archives, allowing attackers with high privileges to write arbitrary files to the host system. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, and malformed archives can trigger a denial of service that permanently wipes the database before crashing the application. The flaw affects Vikunja and the underlying Go platform, with no patch currently available.

Denial Of Service Golang Vikunja +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Buffer overflow in parallel HNSW index build in pgvector 0.6.0 versions up to 0.8.1 is affected by integer underflow (CVSS 8.1).

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Red Hat +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

Gitlab versions up to 18.7.5 is affected by allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CVSS 7.5).

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

Gitlab versions up to 18.7.5 is affected by inefficient regular expression complexity (redos) (CVSS 7.5).

Denial Of Service Gitlab
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.4
HIGH This Week

Cisco Nexus 3600 and 9500-R switches are vulnerable to Layer 2 traffic loops when processing maliciously crafted EVPN frames, allowing unauthenticated adjacent attackers to trigger a denial of service condition by overwhelming network bandwidth. An attacker can exploit this logic error in Layer 2 ingress packet processing by sending crafted Ethernet frames, causing VxLAN traffic loops that drop all data plane traffic. No patch is currently available for this vulnerability.

Denial Of Service Cisco
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.7
HIGH This Week

Improper SNMP request parsing in Cisco Nexus 9000 Series switches running ACI mode allows authenticated remote attackers to trigger kernel panics and device reloads by sending specially crafted queries to specific MIBs. An attacker with valid SNMP read-only community credentials can exploit this vulnerability across SNMP versions 1, 2c, and 3 to achieve denial of service. No patch is currently available for this vulnerability.

Denial Of Service Linux SNMP +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.4
HIGH This Week

Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Fabric Switches in ACI mode contains a vulnerability that allows attackers to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a DoS condition (CVSS 7.4).

Denial Of Service Cisco
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.4
HIGH This Week

Cisco NX-OS devices can be forced to reload through a crafted LLDP packet sent by an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker, causing a denial of service condition. The vulnerability stems from improper frame field validation in the LLDP process, exploitable only from directly connected network segments. No patch is currently available for affected systems.

Denial Of Service Cisco
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.1
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

iccDEV provides a set of libraries and tools for working with ICC color management profiles. [CVSS 7.1 HIGH]

Denial Of Service Iccdev Color
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

SQL injection in the SPIP interface_traduction_objets plugin before version 2.2.2 allows authenticated editors to execute arbitrary database queries through unsanitized input in translation request parameters. Attackers can exploit this to read, modify, or delete database contents, or cause denial of service. A patch is available and should be applied immediately to affected installations.

PHP Denial Of Service SQLi +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Wasmtime's HTTP header handling in the wasmtime-wasi-http crate crashes when processing excessive header fields, allowing remote attackers to trigger denial of service against applications embedding Wasmtime. The vulnerability affects versions prior to 24.0.6, 36.0.6, 40.0.4, 41.0.4, and 42.0.0, and has been patched to return a controlled trap instead of panicking. Embedders should update immediately to mitigate this DoS vector.

Denial Of Service Industrial Red Hat +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Fiber web framework versions 2 and 3 are vulnerable to denial of service attacks when processing requests to routes containing more than 30 parameters, enabling remote attackers to crash affected applications without authentication. The vulnerability stems from insufficient validation during route registration and unbounded array writes in request matching logic. Public exploit code exists for this high-severity flaw, though patches are available in Fiber v2.52.12 and v3.1.0.

Denial Of Service Fiber Suse +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.2
HIGH PATCH This Week

Unauthenticated attackers can bypass FASP administrator approval in Mastodon 4.4.0-4.4.13 and 4.5.0-4.5.6 to subscribe to account events and request content backfill, affecting only servers with the experimental FASP feature enabled. While individual requests cause minor information disclosure of publicly available URIs, repeated exploitation enables denial-of-service attacks. A patch is available to address this authorization bypass.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Mastodon +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 1% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL Act Now

Insecure .NET Remoting deserialization in Altec DocLink (Beyond Limits) 4.0.336.0. Exposed TCP endpoints allow unauthenticated remote code execution via .NET Remoting deserialization attacks.

RCE Denial Of Service .NET +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH This Week

IEC 60870-5-104: Potential Denial of Service impact on reception of invalid U-format frame. Product is only affected if IEC 60870-5-104 bi-directional functionality is configured. [CVSS 7.5 HIGH]

Denial Of Service Rtu520 Firmware Rtu530 Firmware +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

ImageMagick versions prior to 7.1.2-15 and 6.9.13-40 are vulnerable to denial of service when processing maliciously crafted SVG files due to an off-by-one error in boundary validation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger an integer underflow by bypassing the flawed size check, causing the application to crash or become unresponsive. No patch is currently available for affected deployments.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Imagemagick +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Imagemagick versions up to 7.1.2-15 is affected by allocation of resources without limits or throttling (CVSS 7.5).

Denial Of Service Imagemagick
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.4
HIGH PATCH This Week

Stack-based buffer overflow in ImageMagick versions before 7.1.2-15 allows remote attackers to crash the application and potentially corrupt memory by submitting specially crafted FTXT image files. The vulnerability requires high complexity to exploit but impacts both confidentiality and availability of affected systems. No patch is currently available for this HIGH severity issue (CVSS 7.4).

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Stack Overflow +3
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. [CVSS 7.5 HIGH]

Denial Of Service Red Hat Imagemagick +4
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Denial of service in Valkey 9.0.0 through 9.0.2 allows unauthenticated network attackers to crash the server by exploiting improper networking state handling after empty requests. An attacker can trigger an assertion failure that causes the Valkey process to abort, impacting availability for all users. No patch is currently available; network isolation is recommended as a mitigation.

Denial Of Service Valkey Lfprojects
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.2
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

BigBlueButton versions 3.0.21 and below allow remote denial of service when ClamAV is configured following official documentation, as the exposed clamd ports (3310, 7357) can be targeted by attackers to send malicious documents that exhaust server resources or crash the scanning service. This vulnerability affects Ubuntu and Docker deployments since standard firewall rules do not restrict container traffic, and public exploit code exists. An unauthenticated remote attacker requires only network access to trigger the denial of service condition.

Denial Of Service Docker Ubuntu +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Prototype pollution in Swiper versions 6.5.1 through 12.1.1 allows local authenticated attackers to manipulate Object.prototype through improperly validated user input, enabling authentication bypass, denial of service, and remote code execution. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability, which affects applications on Linux and Windows using Node.js or Bun runtimes. A patch is available and should be applied immediately to affected systems processing untrusted input.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Linux +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.3
HIGH This Week

eBay API MCP Server's ebay_set_user_tokens tool fails to validate environment variable inputs in the updateEnvFile function, allowing authenticated attackers to inject arbitrary variables into the .env configuration file. An attacker with login credentials can exploit this to overwrite existing configurations, trigger denial of service conditions, or achieve remote code execution through malicious environment variable injection. No patch is currently available for this vulnerability affecting all versions of the AI/ML product.

Denial Of Service AI / ML
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Minimatch versions 10.2.0 and below suffer from catastrophic backtracking in regular expression processing when glob patterns contain multiple consecutive wildcards, enabling denial of service attacks with exponential time complexity. Applications that process user-supplied glob patterns are vulnerable to CPU exhaustion, with worst-case scenarios causing indefinite hangs; public exploit code exists for this vulnerability. The issue is resolved in version 10.2.1.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Minimatch +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.8
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Calibre versions 9.2.1 and below allow authenticated users to write arbitrary files with any extension to any writable location via path traversal in PDB file readers, potentially enabling code execution or system compromise through file overwriting. The vulnerability affects both 132-byte and 202-byte PDB header variants and silently overwrites existing files without warning. Public exploit code exists and patches are available in version 9.3.0 and later.

Denial Of Service Path Traversal Calibre +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Geth versions prior to 1.16.9 can be remotely crashed by sending a specially crafted message over the network, allowing unauthenticated attackers to cause denial of service against Ethereum nodes. This vulnerability in Go Ethereum's message handling requires no user interaction and affects the availability of affected nodes. Patched versions 1.16.9 and 1.17.0 are available to remediate this issue.

Denial Of Service Golang Go Ethereum +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC This Week

Nanazip versions up to 6.0.1630.0 is affected by loop with unreachable exit condition (infinite loop) (CVSS 7.5).

Denial Of Service Nanazip M2Team
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

emp3r0r C2 framework versions prior to 3.21.2 crash due to unsynchronized concurrent map access in Go goroutines, allowing attackers with network access to trigger denial of service against the C2 infrastructure. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability. The issue is resolved in version 3.21.2 and later.

Denial Of Service Linux Golang +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Denial of service in jsPDF (npm package, all versions prior to 4.2.0) lets an attacker who can supply image input to the `addImage` or `html` methods crash the host process. A malicious GIF whose header declares enormous width/height values forces the bundled omggif decoder to attempt allocation of an oversized pixel buffer, producing out-of-memory errors. Publicly available exploit code exists (no active exploitation reported in CISA KEV), and the EPSS probability is low at 0.05%.

Denial Of Service Jspdf Parall
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Out-of-bounds write in Autodesk shared components allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code, corrupt data, or crash the application by crafting a malicious MODEL file. The vulnerability requires user interaction to parse the malicious file and affects multiple Autodesk products with no patch currently available.

Denial Of Service Shared Components Autodesk
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH This Week

Out-of-bounds write in Autodesk products' CATPART file parser enables local attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution, crash the application, or corrupt data when a user opens a malicious file. The vulnerability requires user interaction and affects shared components across multiple Autodesk products. No patch is currently available.

Denial Of Service Shared Components Autodesk
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH This Week

When BIG-IP AFM or BIG-IP DDoS is provisioned, undisclosed traffic can cause TMM to terminate. Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated. [CVSS 7.5 HIGH]

Denial Of Service
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

Use After Free vulnerability in Apache Arrow C++. This issue affects Apache Arrow C++ from 15.0.0 through 23.0.0. [CVSS 7.0 HIGH]

Denial Of Service Python Apache +6
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Heap buffer overflow in Perl's Crypt::URandom module (versions 0.41-0.54) allows denial of service through integer wraparound when negative length values are passed to the crypt_urandom_getrandom() XS function, causing heap corruption and application crashes. The vulnerability requires direct control over the length parameter, limiting real-world exploitability in typical usage scenarios where this value is hardcoded. No patch is currently available for affected users.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Memory Corruption +2
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

Local privilege escalation in the Linux kernel macvlan driver allows a local attacker with user privileges to cause memory corruption and kernel crashes through improper error handling in macvlan_common_newlink(). The vulnerability stems from a use-after-free condition when macvlan link creation fails during device registration, enabling denial of service and potential privilege escalation on affected systems.

Denial Of Service Linux Use After Free +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd When deassigning a KVM_IRQFD, don't clobber the irqfd's copy of the IRQ's routing entry as doing so breaks kvm_arch_irq_bypass_del_producer() on x86 and arm64, which explicitly look for KVM_IRQ_ROUTING_MSI.

Denial Of Service Linux Google +4
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.0
HIGH PATCH This Week

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: cpsw: Execute ndo_set_rx_mode callback in a work queue Commit 1767bb2d47b7 ("ipv6: mcast: Don't hold RTNL for IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and MCAST_JOIN_GROUP.") removed the RTNL lock for IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and MCAST_JOIN_GROUP operations.

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

The Linux kernel bonding driver contains a use-after-free vulnerability in the slave device initialization path that allows local attackers with user privileges to cause memory corruption or denial of service. The flaw occurs when slave array updates happen before XDP setup completion, enabling the new slave to be used for transmission before being freed by error cleanup handlers. This affects Debian, Ubuntu, and other Linux distributions running vulnerable kernel versions.

Denial Of Service Linux Use After Free +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.8
HIGH PATCH This Week

A race condition in the Linux kernel's MPTCP address management function allows local attackers with user-level privileges to cause a denial of service through kernel crashes via improper list manipulation without RCU synchronization. The vulnerability exists in mptcp_pm_nl_flush_addrs_doit() where list_splice_init() is called while holding a spinlock, creating unsafe concurrent access conditions. Currently, no patch is available for this medium-severity vulnerability.

Denial Of Service Linux Race Condition +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

A race condition in the Linux kernel's NVMe target bio completion handler can cause a NULL pointer dereference when a bio is re-submitted while simultaneously being deinitialized, leading to denial of service on systems running affected kernel versions. Local attackers with access to NVMe target functionality can trigger this race to crash the kernel. A patch is not currently available.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.1
HIGH POC PATCH This Week

Unauthenticated remote attackers can crash BACnet Stack prior to versions 1.5.0rc4 and 1.4.3rc2 by sending a malformed WriteProperty request that triggers an integer underflow during APDU decoding, resulting in an out-of-bounds memory read. Public exploit code exists for this vulnerability. The issue affects embedded systems running vulnerable versions of the BACnet protocol stack library.

Denial Of Service Bacnet Stack Bacnetstack
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

ntpd-rs versions prior to 1.7.1 are vulnerable to remote denial of service through crafted NTS (Network Time Protocol Security) packets that force excessive CPU consumption on affected servers. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending malformed NTS cookie requests that require significantly more processing resources to handle, degrading server performance and availability. The vulnerability affects ntpd-rs deployments with NTS enabled and is resolved in version 1.7.1.

Denial Of Service Ntpd Rs Suse
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 9.8
CRITICAL POC PATCH Act Now

Heap out-of-bounds write in Nav2 AMCL (Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization) in ROS 2 Navigation Framework 1.3.11 and earlier. Robot navigation vulnerability. PoC and patch available.

Denial Of Service Nav2 Opennav
NVD GitHub
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