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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 (39912)

EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Denial of service in Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) software drivers for Windows before version 2.6 can be triggered by a low-privileged local user through improper input validation at the Ring 3 (user application) boundary. An authenticated but unprivileged local attacker can cause high availability impact to the affected system with low complexity, also producing minor confidentiality and integrity side effects. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, and SSVC assessment classifies exploitation as none with non-automatable attack surface.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Intel +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM This Month

Divide-by-zero in Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) software drivers for Windows before version 1.13 allows a low-privileged authenticated local user to cause a denial of service. The flaw resides in the Ring 3 (user application) layer of the driver stack, meaning no kernel-level access or elevated privileges are required to trigger the crash. No active exploitation has been identified - EPSS is 0.01% at the 3rd percentile, the vulnerability is absent from the CISA KEV catalog, and SSVC rates exploitation as 'none' with automatable set to 'no.'

Denial Of Service Microsoft Intel +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.8
MEDIUM This Month

Intel QAT (Quick Assist Technology) software drivers for Windows before version 1.13 contain an unchecked return value flaw in Ring 3 user-space application code, enabling a local authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service. The vulnerability carries a CVSS 4.0 score of 4.8 with strictly local access and low-privilege requirements, limiting blast radius to availability of the affected system only. No public exploit code exists and CISA has not listed this in KEV; EPSS at the 3rd percentile and SSVC exploitation status of 'none' confirm this is currently theoretical rather than actively targeted.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Intel +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Buffer overflow in Intel QAT (Quick Assist Technology) software drivers for Windows before version 1.13 allows an authenticated local user to trigger a denial of service condition via the Ring 3 user-application interface. The flaw (CWE-120) resides in the user-space driver layer and does not require special internal knowledge or user interaction to exploit, though local authenticated access is a hard prerequisite. No active exploitation has been identified (not in CISA KEV), and EPSS remains at the 3rd percentile, placing real-world risk firmly in the low-to-medium range despite a moderate CVSS 4.0 score of 6.9.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Microsoft +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Null pointer dereference in Intel QAT (Quick Assist Technology) software drivers for Windows before version 1.13 permits a low-privileged authenticated local user to crash the driver's Ring 3 user-mode component, causing a denial of service with high availability impact and minor confidentiality exposure. No active exploitation is confirmed - the vulnerability is absent from CISA KEV, EPSS sits at 0.01% (3rd percentile), and SSVC classifies exploitation status as none. Real-world risk is constrained to environments with Intel QAT explicitly deployed, which is typical of data-center and high-performance computing workloads rather than general enterprise endpoints.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Microsoft +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Denial of service in Intel Neural Processing Unit (NPU) firmware drivers (Ring 1: Device Drivers) allows a low-privileged local user to crash or impair NPU availability through an improper conditions check (CWE-754). Affected are systems running Intel NPU Drivers as identified under Intel Security Advisory INTEL-SA-01424. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified; EPSS is 0.01% (3rd percentile) and CISA SSVC rates exploitation as none - making this a low-urgency patching item despite the driver-level impact.

Denial Of Service Intel N A +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Improper input validation in Intel Quick Assist Technology (QAT) software drivers for Windows prior to version 1.13 allows a local authenticated user to trigger a denial of service condition. The flaw resides in the Ring 3 (user-space application) layer of the driver stack, meaning an unprivileged but authenticated local adversary can cause high availability impact - potentially crashing the driver or the system - with minor confidentiality and integrity side effects. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, EPSS sits at 0.02% (6th percentile), and CISA SSVC classifies exploitation as none and the attack as non-automatable, indicating negligible current threat activity.

Denial Of Service Microsoft Intel +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

OpenClaude MCP's OAuth callback handler in Node.js can be shut down via CSRF attack by sending a request with any `error` query parameter, bypassing state validation entirely without knowledge of the CSRF token. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to terminate a user's active authentication session and force server shutdown due to a logic flaw where the `error` parameter check precedes and disables the state validation check. Vendor-released patch version 0.5.1 available.

Denial Of Service CSRF Node.js
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in protobufjs allows remote attackers to crash runtime code generation by providing crafted protobuf schemas or JSON descriptors containing unescaped control characters in field names. When affected message types perform encode, decode, verify, or conversion operations, the generated JavaScript code fails to compile, rendering those types unusable. This affects applications that load untrusted schemas; those using only application-defined schemas are not impacted. No code execution is known to occur.

RCE Denial Of Service Red Hat +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

OX Dovecot Pro allows authenticated attackers to cause uncontrolled memory consumption and denial of service via excessive open braces in IMAP commands, bypassing the incomplete fix from CVE-2026-27857 which only blocked closing braces. An attacker with valid IMAP credentials can exhaust server memory up to the configured vsz_limit, crashing the IMAP process and disrupting mail service.

Denial Of Service Ox Dovecot Pro Open Xchange Gmbh
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

OX Dovecot Pro allows authenticated users to upload malicious Sieve scripts via ManageSieve protocol or local access that bypass configured CPU time limits by up to 130 times, enabling denial of service through server performance degradation. The vulnerability requires low-privilege authenticated access and medium attack complexity, affecting availability without compromising confidentiality or integrity. No public exploit code has been identified at the time of analysis.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Suse +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH Act Now

Denial of service in Siemens industrial networking equipment allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash affected devices via specially crafted IPv4 packets, requiring manual restart for recovery. This vulnerability affects over 200 Siemens industrial automation products including SCALANCE switches/routers, SIMATIC PLCs, SINAMICS drives, and RUGGEDCOM devices. CVSS 4.0 score of 8.7 reflects high availability impact (VA:H) with network-accessible attack vector requiring low complexity and no privileges (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N). No public exploit code or CISA KEV listing identified at time of analysis, though the straightforward network-based attack and widespread product exposure warrant priority patching for operational technology environments where uptime is critical.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Siemens +243
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM This Month

mem0 1.0.0 server exposes an unauthenticated memory deletion API endpoint (DELETE /memories) that allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary user memory records by specifying user identifiers in query parameters, resulting in unauthorized data loss and denial of service. No authentication or authorization validation is performed before processing deletion requests, enabling any network-accessible attacker to target any user's data without credentials.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service N A
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Infinite loop denial-of-service in barebox's ext4 directory parser allows an attacker who can supply a crafted filesystem image to permanently hang the boot process of affected embedded devices. Versions prior to 2026.04.0 are affected via CWE-835 (unreachable loop exit) in ext4fs_iterate_dir() when it encounters a directory entry with a direntlen of zero. No public exploit has been identified and CISA has not added this to KEV; however, the impact of a permanently hung bootloader is a complete availability loss for the affected device.

Denial Of Service Barebox
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.2
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Uncontrolled resource consumption in Apple iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS allows an adjacent local-network attacker to trigger a denial-of-service condition through a memory handling flaw. Affected platforms include iOS and iPadOS prior to 18.7.9 and 26.5, macOS Sonoma prior to 14.8.7, macOS Tahoe prior to 26.5, and tvOS prior to 26.5. No public exploit code exists and CISA has not added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog; EPSS probability is 0.02%, consistent with SSVC's 'exploitation: none' assessment.

Denial Of Service Apple Tvos +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Process crash vulnerability in Apple's web content processing stack affects iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS across both the legacy 18.x and new 26.x release trains. An unauthenticated remote attacker (per CVSS PR:N) can trigger an unexpected rendering process crash by delivering maliciously crafted web content to a user who visits or interacts with attacker-controlled material. The impact is limited to availability (denial of service via process crash) with no confidentiality or integrity consequences; no public exploit code exists and CISA has not listed this in KEV, consistent with the 0.03% EPSS score.

Denial Of Service Apple Tvos +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

A use-after-free vulnerability in Apple's Wi-Fi stack allows attackers in a privileged network position to cause denial-of-service via crafted Wi-Fi packets. The vulnerability affects iOS and iPadOS versions prior to 26.5 and 18.7.9, macOS versions prior to 26.5, 15.7.7, and 14.8.7, and tvOS, watchOS versions prior to 26.5. Exploitation requires adjacent network access and specific radio conditions (AC:H) but results in high availability impact with no active public exploitation identified.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +1
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.2
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Null pointer dereference in Apple operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, tvOS) allows local network attackers to cause denial of service by sending crafted input that bypasses validation. The vulnerability affects all versions prior to iOS 26.5, iPadOS 26.5, macOS Tahoe 26.5, and tvOS 26.5. No code execution or data compromise is possible; impact is limited to availability disruption on affected devices.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Apple
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Apple macOS prior to version 26.5 allows remote attackers to crash Safari via maliciously crafted web content that triggers a use-after-free memory condition. The vulnerability requires user interaction (opening a malicious webpage) but no authentication, affecting all macOS versions before 26.5. EPSS exploitation probability is very low at 0.02%, suggesting limited real-world attack incentive despite the crash capability.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial-of-service vulnerability in iOS and iPadOS allows network-positioned attackers with high privileges to crash or degrade service availability through insufficient input validation. Apple addressed this with patches in iOS 18.7.7, iPadOS 18.7.7, iOS 26.4, and iPadOS 26.4. EPSS score of 0.02% (5th percentile) indicates very low real-world exploitation probability despite CVSS score of 4.9.

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

Safari on Apple platforms crashes when processing maliciously crafted web content due to a use-after-free vulnerability in memory management, resulting in denial of service. Affects iOS and iPadOS below 26.5, macOS Tahoe below 26.5, tvOS below 26.5, visionOS below 26.5, and watchOS below 26.5. Exploitation requires user interaction to visit a malicious webpage but does not allow code execution or information disclosure.

Denial Of Service Use After Free Memory Corruption +5
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial-of-service in Audiobookshelf prior to version 2.32.2 allows authenticated admin users to crash the server by uploading a specially crafted ZIP file to the backup upload endpoint. The vulnerability stems from decompressing ZIP entries without size limits, enabling an attacker to craft a highly compressed archive that consumes gigabytes of memory when extracted, exhausting server resources and triggering an out-of-memory condition.

Denial Of Service Audiobookshelf Advplyr
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.0
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

HTML injection in local-deep-research's PDF export service (pdf_service.py:_markdown_to_html) allows any authenticated user to embed arbitrary HTML tags into WeasyPrint-rendered documents by supplying a crafted research query, chaining directly to SSRF that bypasses the application's existing ssrf_validator.py defenses. All versions prior to v1.6.0 are affected via the pip package pkg:pip/local-deep-research; a detailed public proof-of-concept is included in the GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-fj2m-qvh9-jq4q). No CISA KEV listing and EPSS of 0.03% (8th percentile) indicate no confirmed widespread exploitation, but the attack is trivially repeatable by any authenticated user on shared or cloud-hosted deployments, with IAM credential theft as the highest-severity outcome.

XSS Denial Of Service Python +2
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Infinite-loop denial-of-service in Mermaid's Gantt chart renderer affects npm/mermaid v11.14.0 and earlier (including 11.x alpha/beta) and all 10.x releases prior to v10.9.6, allowing any party who can supply diagram syntax to a rendering pipeline to permanently hang the rendering thread or browser tab. The attack surface is specifically platforms that accept user-supplied Mermaid content and call the render path - wikis, issue trackers, documentation tools, and SaaS products embedding Mermaid. No public exploit is independently confirmed beyond the minimal reproducer included in the advisory itself; EPSS sits at 0.04% (14th percentile), consistent with no observed mass exploitation and no CISA KEV listing.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

Denial of service in aiwaves-cn agents up to commit e8c4e3c2d19739d3dff59e577d1c97090cc15f59 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server resources via the recall_relevant_memories_to_working_memory function in cheshire_cat_core component, causing service unavailability. Publicly available exploit code exists (CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption). With an CVSS score of 5.3 and EPSS exploitation probability rated 'P', this represents a moderate-severity availability threat suitable for prioritization in resource-constrained environments.

Denial Of Service Agents
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

VectifyAI PageIndex up to commit f50e52975313c6716c02b20a119577a1929decba allows remote unauthenticated denial-of-service attacks through an infinite loop vulnerability in the PDF Table of Contents handler. The toc_transformer function in pageindex/page_index.py can be triggered remotely without authentication, causing the application to hang and become unresponsive. Public exploit code is available, increasing real-world attack likelihood.

Denial Of Service Pageindex
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.2
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Unbounded recursion in jq 1.8.1 and earlier causes denial of service via crafted jq programs using the * operator on nested objects, resulting in process crash with segmentation fault. Local attackers can exploit this vulnerability without authentication to crash jq processes, affecting any system processing untrusted jq filter logic.

Denial Of Service Red Hat Jq +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Heap-based out-of-bounds read in dnsmasq DNSSEC validation allows remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending a crafted DNS packet. The vulnerability affects dnsmasq 2.93 and potentially earlier versions; CVSS 5.3 with network-based access vector indicates moderate severity. No public exploit code or active exploitation confirmed at time of analysis.

Buffer Overflow Denial Of Service Information Disclosure +1
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 3.7
LOW PATCH Monitor

Cache poisoning in Next.js middleware redirect handling allows attackers to inject a malicious x-nextjs-data request header, causing middleware to replace the standard Location header with an internal x-nextjs-redirect header that browsers ignore. When deployed behind a CDN or reverse proxy that caches 3xx responses without varying on this header, a single attacker request can poison the cached redirect, resulting in denial of service for that redirect path for all subsequent visitors until cache expiration. Affects Next.js versions 12.2.0-15.5.15 and 16.0.0-16.2.4; vendor-released patches available in 15.5.16 and 16.2.5.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub VulDB HeroDevs
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Next.js Image Optimization API allows remote attackers to exhaust server memory by requesting large local assets through the /_next/image endpoint when using the default image loader without size limits. The vulnerability affects self-hosted Next.js deployments with default or configured images.localPatterns; Vercel-hosted and applications using unoptimized images or custom loaders are unaffected. Vendor-released patches available: version 15.5.16 and 16.2.5.

Denial Of Service
NVD GitHub VulDB HeroDevs
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to crash the NRF component by manipulating the hnrf-uri argument passed to the yuarel_parse function in /lib/sbi/conv.c. The vulnerability has a publicly available exploit and low CVSS score (4.3) due to authentication requirement and limited scope, but affects a critical 5G network function with potential operational impact.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.1
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Disk space exhaustion in malcontent 0.14 is achievable by any local user through a globally accessible D-Bus API that imposes no resource allocation limits (CWE-770). The exposed D-Bus endpoint - part of this GNOME parental controls daemon - can be called without elevated privileges, enabling an unprivileged local user to exhaust host disk space and cause a denial-of-service condition. No active exploitation is confirmed (SSVC: none; EPSS: 0.01%), and a vendor patch is available per the SUSE advisory.

Denial Of Service
NVD
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS NRF component up to version 2.7.7 allows remote authenticated attackers to exhaust the nf_service memory pool via the ogs_nnrf_nfm_handle_nf_profile function, causing the process to abort via failed assertion. Publicly available exploit code exists, and a vendor patch is available but awaits acceptance into the main branch.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS through version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to crash the Service Management Function (SMF) by manipulating the smf_nsmf_handle_update_data_in_vsmf function in nsmf-handler.c. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the project maintainers have not yet responded to the early disclosure notification despite awareness of the issue.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to crash the Session Management Function (SMF) by manipulating the qosFlowProfile argument in the smf_nsmf_handle_update_data_in_vsmf function. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the vulnerability affects the 5G core network's ability to manage quality-of-service parameters, though the project maintainers have not yet responded to early disclosure.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS SMF (Session Management Function) via crafted PDU Session Modification messages allows remote authenticated attackers to trigger unvalidated parameter processing in gsm_handle_pdu_session_modification_qos_flow_descriptions(), causing service disruption. The vulnerability stems from insufficient pre-validation of QoS flow parameter identifiers and bitrate units before state mutation, potentially leaving the SMF in an inconsistent state. Publicly available exploit code exists, and a fix awaits upstream acceptance in PR #4513.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.6
HIGH PATCH This Week

Memory exhaustion denial-of-service in WSO2 Identity Server's Magic Link authenticator allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the authentication service by flooding invalid login requests without rate limiting. The vulnerability affects deployments using the Magic Link authentication flow and has an EPSS score indicating moderate exploitation likelihood. WSO2 has published a security advisory (WSO2-2025-4469) with remediation guidance for affected Identity Server and Carbon MagicLink Authenticator Module installations.

Denial Of Service Wso2 Identity Server Wso2 Carbon Magiclink Authenticator Module +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to crash the Session Management Function (SMF) via manipulation of QoS rule parsing in the ogs_nas_parse_qos_rules function. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 but public exploit code is available; however, exploitation requires prior authentication and causes only availability impact without confidentiality or integrity compromise.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service vulnerability in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 affects the SMF (Session Management Function) component's smf_nsmf_handle_create_sm_context function, allowing authenticated remote attackers to crash or degrade the 5G core network service through malformed session context creation requests. Public exploit code exists and the vulnerability has low real-world severity (CVSS 2.1) due to requirement for authenticated access and availability impact only, though active 5G infrastructure targeting remains a concern given the critical nature of SMF in telecom deployments.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 affects the SMF component's OpenAPI_list_create function, allowing authenticated remote attackers to cause service unavailability through resource manipulation. The vulnerability has low to moderate severity (CVSS 4.3) with publicly disclosed proof-of-concept code, though the vendor has not yet responded to early disclosure notification.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Remote authenticated denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 affects the SMF (Session Management Function) component, specifically in the smf_nsmf_handle_created_data_in_vsmf function. An authenticated attacker can remotely trigger a denial of service condition by sending crafted requests. Public exploit code is available (CVE-2026-8267 GitHub issue #4448), though the vendor has not yet released a patched version despite early notification.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to crash the Service Management Function (SMF) via manipulation of the PDU session establishment acceptance function, resulting in service unavailability. The CVSS score of 4.3 reflects low severity due to authentication requirements and availability-only impact, though publicly available exploit code exists and the vulnerability has been reported to the project without acknowledged response.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 1.9
LOW POC PATCH Monitor

Denial of service via reachable assertion in WebAssembly Binaryen up to version 117 allows local attackers with low privileges to crash the BrOn parser component by providing malformed WebAssembly bytecode that triggers an unhandled assertion in the IRBuilder::makeBrOn function, with publicly available exploit code and vendor patch already released.

Denial Of Service Binaryen Webassembly
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Null pointer dereference in Open5GS Session Management Function (SMF) up to version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to cause denial of service by manipulating the smf_nsmf_handle_create_data_in_hsmf function. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the project has been notified but has not yet released a patch.

Denial Of Service Null Pointer Dereference Open5gs +1
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to crash the Service Mobile Function (SMF) component via manipulation of the update_authorized_pcc_rule_and_qos function in the Policy and Charging Control (PCC) handler. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 2.1 with low availability impact; publicly available exploit code exists, and the project maintainers have not yet responded to early disclosure.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 via the smf_n4_build_qos_flow_to_modify_list function in the SMF (Session Management Function) component allows remote authenticated attackers to crash the service with low attack complexity. The vulnerability has been publicly disclosed with exploit code available; the vendor was notified early but has not yet released a fix.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service vulnerability in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to crash the Service Measurement Function (SMF) component via improper handling in the update_authorized_pcc_rule_and_qos function. The vulnerability has a publicly available exploit and moderate CVSS score (4.3) but is limited to authenticated access and results in availability impact only. The vendor has not yet released a patch despite early notification through a GitHub issue.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 2.1
LOW POC Monitor

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows authenticated remote attackers to crash the Service Mobility Function (SMF) component via manipulation of the update_authorized_pcc_rule_and_qos function in npcf-handler.c. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the vendor has not released a patch despite early notification through issue tracking.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.7
HIGH POC This Week

memono Notepad 4.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to crash the application by pasting excessively long character buffers into note fields. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.

Denial Of Service Apple Notepad +1
NVD Exploit-DB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.1
MEDIUM This Month

Denial of service in Dotouch XproUPF 2.0.0 through manipulation of the vlib_worker_loop function in libvlib.so allows local authenticated attackers to crash the UPF process. The vulnerability has CVSS 5.1 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:L) and targets availability rather than confidentiality or integrity. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed; the vendor was notified early during responsible disclosure.

Denial Of Service Xproupf
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

The DOMNode::C14N() method in PHP 8.4.x before 8.4.21 and 8.5.x before 8.5.6 incorrectly processes XML data, creating circular linked lists in the document structure that trigger infinite loops during subsequent XML processing, causing denial of service. Unauthenticated remote attackers can trigger this by submitting malformed XML to applications using affected PHP versions, though attack complexity is noted as present in the CVSS vector.

PHP Denial Of Service Php Group
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

Denial of service vulnerability in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the service by triggering improper exception handling in the ogs_pcc_rule_install_flow_from_media function within the PCC rule processing library. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the project maintainers have not responded to the early notification despite issue tracking.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the Policy Control Function (PCF) by manipulating the SmPolicyContextData.ipv6AddressPrefix parameter in the pcf_sess_set_ipv6prefix function. The vulnerability has publicly available exploit code and was disclosed despite vendor non-responsiveness, making it a known attack vector against 5G service provider infrastructure.

Denial Of Service Open5gs
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 via manipulation of the pcf_sess_sbi_discover_and_send function in the sm-policies endpoint allows remote unauthenticated attackers to disrupt service availability. Publicly available exploit code exists, and the upstream project has not yet issued a patch despite early notification via issue report.

Denial Of Service Open5gs
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM This Month

Remote denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 affects the sm-policies endpoint's pcf_nbsf_management_handle_register function, allowing unauthenticated network attackers to trigger a crash or service disruption with low attack complexity. Publicly available exploit code exists and the vendor was notified early but has not released a fix.

Denial Of Service Open5gs
NVD GitHub VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM POC This Month

Denial of service in Open5GS up to version 2.7.7 allows remote unauthenticated attackers to crash the Policy Control Function (PCF) service by sending crafted requests to the delete endpoint in the SM policy control handler (pcf_npcf_smpolicycontrol_handle_delete). The vulnerability has a publicly available proof of concept and impacts the availability of 5G network policy enforcement, though the vendor has not yet released a patch despite early notification.

Denial Of Service Open5gs N A
NVD VulDB GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM This Month

Denial of service in Open5GS User Plane Function (UPF) up to version 2.7.7 allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to exhaust server resources through manipulation of GTPv1-U packet handling in the _gtpv1_u_recv_cb function. The vulnerability enables resource consumption attacks against 5G core network infrastructure without requiring authentication or user interaction. Vendor notification occurred via GitHub issue #4492 but has not received developer response or a released patch.

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

Unbounded recursion in eml_parser 3.0.0 (Python, pip) allows denial of service via a crafted EML file containing approximately 120 nested message/rfc822 attachments, exhausting CPython's default stack limit and crashing the parsing worker with an unhandled RecursionError. A publicly available, deterministic proof-of-concept reproduces the crash with a 12 KB payload in under 100ms against a default-configured installation. No active exploitation has been confirmed (not in CISA KEV), and EPSS is very low at 0.02%, reflecting that non-RFC-compliant messages triggering this flaw are typically filtered by upstream mail infrastructure - but pipelines that ingest raw bytes without prior validation remain directly exposed.

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

### Impact Anyone loading untrusted ASN1 files (eg. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.

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

Authenticated panic-DoS in free5GC v4.2.1's UDR data-repository DELETE handler allows any network attacker holding a valid nudr-dr OAuth2 token to crash the endpoint repeatedly with a single request targeting a non-existent ueId. The nil-interface type assertion fires before any state mutation, producing an HTTP 500 on every trigger while Gin recovery keeps the process alive - making the panic indefinitely repeatable. A full end-to-end PoC is published in GHSA-jqfc-gwj5-3w63; no CISA KEV listing exists and EPSS is 0.06% (18th percentile), consistent with the niche 5G core deployment footprint.

Denial Of Service Docker Suse
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Nil-pointer dereference in free5GC's Unified Data Repository (UDR) v4.2.1 allows an OAuth2-authenticated network attacker to repeatedly panic the `amf-subscriptions` DELETE handler, forcing HTTP 500 responses and elevated CPU and log overhead on each request. The flaw stems from a missing `return` after the subscription-not-found branch in `RemoveAmfSubscriptionsInfoProcedure`, causing the handler to dereference a nil map entry even when it has already set a 404 problem-details response. No public exploit is in CISA KEV, but a full end-to-end proof-of-concept is embedded in GHSA-4rqf-grm6-vf75 and was validated against the official Docker compose lab, making exploitation straightforward for any holder of a valid `nudr-dr` token.

Denial Of Service Docker Null Pointer Dereference +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Concurrent PUT requests to free5GC BSF v4.2.1 deterministically crash the Binding Support Function process via an unsynchronized Go map write, collapsing the entire nbsf-management SBI surface until manual restart. The `ReplaceIndividualSubcription()` handler reads `BsfSelf.Subscriptions` under `RLock()` but writes to the same map without acquiring the write mutex in its create-if-absent branch, causing the Go runtime to emit a non-recoverable `fatal error: concurrent map read and map write` that bypasses Gin's recovery middleware and terminates the process with exit code 2. Publicly available exploit code exists and was validated by the researcher against the official Docker compose lab; the attack is repeatable across restarts, enabling sustained outage for authenticated token holders. EPSS is low (0.04%, 11th percentile), consistent with the OAuth2 token prerequisite limiting opportunistic exploitation.

Denial Of Service Python Docker +2
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Nil pointer dereference in free5GC v4.2.1's Policy Control Function (PCF) allows any caller holding a valid npcf-policyauthorization OAuth2 token to trigger a Go runtime panic on every POST to /npcf-policyauthorization/v1/app-sessions, causing HTTP 500 responses that deny app-session creation for that request. The flaw activates only when suppFeat="1" enables traffic-routing feature negotiation and a medComponents entry supplies afAppId without AfRoutReq - a valid input combination the handler passes into provisioningOfTrafficRoutingInfo with routeReq==nil and then immediately dereferences. Publicly available exploit code exists in the GHSA advisory; a vendor patch is confirmed at PCF module v1.4.3 / free5GC v4.2.2. No confirmed active exploitation (CISA KEV absent) and EPSS sits at 0.05%, consistent with the product's niche 5G core deployment footprint.

Denial Of Service Docker Null Pointer Dereference +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

FlashMQ MQTT broker versions prior to 1.26.1 crashes with a divide-by-zero fault when a client with retained publish permission sends a retained message while both the `set_retained_message_defer_timeout` and `set_retained_message_defer_timeout_spread` settings are configured to non-default values, resulting in full denial of service and disconnection of all active MQTT sessions. Publicly available exploit code exists per SSVC classification, though EPSS sits at 0.11% (30th percentile) and no active exploitation is confirmed via the CISA KEV catalog. The vulnerable configuration requires explicit operator action to trigger, meaningfully narrowing real-world exposure.

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

Denial of service vulnerability in FastGPT 4.14.13 and prior affects the code-sandbox component due to insufficient resource isolation and reliance on weak application-level memory limits. Unauthenticated remote attackers can trigger complete service unavailability by launching time-window memory attacks or exhausting the JavaScript worker pool via concurrent CPU-intensive requests. Attack complexity is reported as low with attack timing considerations (AT:P), and no vendor-released patch is available at time of publication.

Denial Of Service Fastgpt Labring
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.8
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Volcano webhook server allows any in-cluster pod with low-privilege access to exhaust the webhook process memory by streaming an arbitrarily large HTTP request body, resulting in an OOM kill. All Volcano deployments across the v1.12.x, v1.13.x, and v1.14.x release lines are affected until the respective patch versions. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified; EPSS sits at 0.02% (7th percentile), consistent with low observed exploitation activity, though the availability impact on cluster admission control elevates operational priority for multi-tenant environments.

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

Unauthorized access to private RAG file and knowledge base content in Open WebUI (versions ≤ 0.8.12) is possible because three of five code paths in the `get_sources_from_items` function pass user-supplied collection names directly to the vector store without any authorization check, making access revocation ineffective at the RAG layer. Authenticated users who previously held access to a file or knowledge base - or who learn the predictable collection name format (`file-<uuid>`) - can continue extracting full document content via the chat completion API long after their access was revoked. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and CISA KEV does not list this CVE, but attack complexity is low and the impact is complete confidentiality loss of targeted private documents.

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

Channel membership authorization bypass in Open WebUI (versions prior to 0.9.0) allows authenticated former channel members to retain full read and write access to private group and DM channels via direct API calls after being removed. The flaw exists in `is_user_channel_member` (`backend/open_webui/models/channels.py`, lines 663-673), which checks for the existence of a `ChannelMember` row but omits validation of the `is_active` field - meaning deactivated membership rows still pass the authorization gate used by all 15 message-level endpoints. A proof-of-concept is confirmed by SSVC data; however, EPSS remains low at 0.03% (7th percentile) and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV, reflecting its precondition-heavy exploitation path rather than broad opportunistic risk.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Python
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Open WebUI's POST /api/v1/models/import endpoint allows authenticated users with workspace.models_import permission to overwrite any existing model in the database without ownership validation, silently replacing system prompts, base model routing, and access grants. This enables a low-privilege user to hijack organization-wide models and inject malicious behavior affecting all downstream queries. The vulnerability bypasses access grant restrictions enforced on all other model mutation endpoints by never calling filter_allowed_access_grants.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Python
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Open WebUI versions up to 0.8.12 allow authenticated users to enumerate members of private standard channels via the GET /api/v1/channels/{id}/members endpoint, which lacks access control checks present on other channel endpoints. An attacker who knows a private channel's UUID can retrieve the full list of members including their names, emails, roles, and profile images, enabling targeted social engineering and organizational structure reconnaissance. The vulnerability is fixed in version 0.9.0.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Python
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.3
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Open WebUI versions up to 0.8.12 allow authenticated users to enumerate all knowledge bases across the instance via an incomplete access control allowlist in the retrieval collection validation function. The `_validate_collection_access` function only enforces ownership checks for collections matching `user-memory-*` and `file-*` patterns, allowing any authenticated user to directly query the system-level `knowledge-bases` meta-collection and retrieve the IDs, names, and descriptions of every knowledge base regardless of ownership. This information disclosure vulnerability serves as an enabler for subsequent attacks including knowledge base destruction and content injection, transforming these attacks from theoretically exploitable (requiring random UUID guessing) to trivially exploitable (UUIDs enumerable). CVSS score 4.3 (network-accessible, low privilege required, low confidentiality impact). Patched in version 0.9.0.

Denial Of Service Python Information Disclosure
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 7.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

### Impact Any application using that loads untrusted ASN1 files (eg. 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 Suse
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.4
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Authentication bypass in gitsign --verify allows attackers to make unsigned or invalid commits appear verified when callers check only exit codes. CertVerifier.Verify() unconditionally dereferences the first certificate from a PKCS7 signature without validating that certificates exist; a crafted signature with an empty certificate set causes an index-out-of-range panic that is silently recovered by internal error handling, returning exit code 0 instead of an error. Exit-code-only verification callers (scripts, CI pipelines) misinterpret this panic as successful verification, while git's own status-fd verification path is partially protected by checking for the GOODSIG status token. The vulnerability affects gitsign versions 0.4.0 through 0.14.x; confirmed actively exploited is not indicated, but a working proof-of-concept exists in the advisory.

Authentication Bypass Denial Of Service Red Hat +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 6.9
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in Zebra's JSON-RPC HTTP middleware allows authenticated RPC clients to crash a Zebra node by disconnecting mid-request, exploiting improper error handling that treats incomplete HTTP body reads as unrecoverable failures instead of returning error responses. Affects zebrad versions 2.2.0 through 4.3.0 and zebra-rpc versions 1.0.0-beta.45 through 6.0.1. No public exploit code or active exploitation confirmed; patch available in zebrad 4.3.1 and zebra-rpc 6.0.2.

Denial Of Service Zebra Rpc Zebrad +1
NVD GitHub
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Local denial-of-service in the Linux kernel's mpi3mr SCSI driver causes a system crash via NULL pointer dereference during resource cleanup. An authenticated local user on a system using MPI3-based storage controllers can trigger a kernel panic by inducing the error path where queue creation fails: the driver frees reply or request queue memory but subsequently attempts to memset the now-freed (NULL) pointer, crashing the system. No public exploit exists and EPSS sits at 0.02% (7th percentile), indicating low real-world exploitation probability at time of analysis.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's UFS host controller driver crashes the kernel when ufshcd_mcq_req_to_hwq() returns NULL during MCQ command completion, allowing an authenticated local user on affected hardware to trigger a denial of service. The vulnerability is confined to the SCSI UFS subsystem's ufshcd_add_command_trace() function and impacts systems with UFS storage operating in Multi-Circular Queue mode - primarily ARM64 embedded and mobile platforms using MediaTek UFS controllers. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% (5th percentile) reflects the highly constrained attack surface.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Kernel denial-of-service in the mlx5_core driver (Mellanox/NVIDIA ConnectX) occurs when a privileged local user switches the eswitch to switchdev mode on hardware that does not support IPsec offload. The driver unconditionally invokes IPsec resource cleanup via mlx5e_ipsec_disable_events regardless of hardware capability, dereferencing a null or uninitialized pointer at offset 0xa0 and triggering a kernel page fault that crashes the system. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS of 0.02% (5th percentile) and no CISA KEV listing indicate negligible real-world exploitation activity.

Denial Of Service Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's rxrpc and AFS subsystems allows a local authenticated attacker to trigger a kernel denial of service. The rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer() function can return either NULL or an error pointer on failure, but its AFS callers only tested for NULL - leaving unchecked error pointer values that, when dereferenced, cause a kernel panic. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS probability sits at 0.02%, indicating low observed exploitation interest; however, the availability impact is rated High by CVSS due to the potential for full system crash.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 4.7
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Race condition in the Linux kernel nvme-pci driver's nvme_poll_irqdisable() function causes an unbalanced IRQ enable/disable pair that crashes the kernel with a warning. Affected kernels from 5.7 through multiple stable branches are vulnerable when running PCIe NVMe storage with MSI-X interrupts: a concurrent NVMe device reset can change the IRQ vector between the disable_irq() and enable_irq() calls, making the kernel operate on different IRQ numbers. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and EPSS of 0.02% confirm this is a reliability/stability concern patched in kernel stable releases 6.1.167, 6.6.130, 6.12.78, 6.18.19, 6.19.9, and 7.0.

Denial Of Service Linux Race Condition +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

DMA mapping resource leak in Linux kernel e1000 and e1000e Intel Ethernet drivers results in local denial-of-service conditions via memory exhaustion. The flaw originates from an off-by-one error in the TX buffer error-cleanup path (dma_error), introduced by commit c1fa347f20f1 which fixed an infinite loop but simultaneously decremented the unmap counter prematurely - causing exactly one DMA mapping to leak per failed multi-buffer TX operation. No public exploit has been identified and no active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV); EPSS of 0.02% (7th percentile) reflects extremely low weaponization probability.

Denial Of Service Linux Red Hat +1
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Denial of service in the Linux kernel's drm/amdkfd (AMD GPU Kernel Fusion Driver) subsystem allows a local authenticated user to crash the kernel via a NULL pointer dereference. The flaw originates in the error handling path of the queue update routine, where a buffer object (bo) is not unreserved upon failure, leaving the subsystem in an inconsistent state that triggers a null dereference. No active exploitation is known; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), and the impact is limited strictly to availability - confidentiality and integrity are unaffected.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's ASoC AMD ACP machine-common driver can be triggered by a local authenticated user to crash the kernel, resulting in a denial of service. The functions acp_card_rt5682_init() and acp_card_rt5682s_init() in sound/soc/amd/acp/acp-mach-common.c fail to validate the return value of clk_get(), allowing an invalid error pointer to be dereferenced by downstream clock core functions. No public exploit code exists and no active exploitation has been confirmed; EPSS probability stands at 0.02% (5th percentile), reflecting very low real-world exploitation likelihood.

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

Race condition in the Linux kernel cgroup subsystem's task iterator exposes local low-privileged users to a denial-of-service condition when task migration and cgroup iteration execute concurrently. The cgroup infrastructure fails to advance active css_task_iters before a task is unlinked from cset->tasks during migration, allowing iterators to reference the wrong linked list and silently skip tasks - or in worst-case scenarios, cause css_task_iter_advance() to crash or loop infinitely on the destination css_set. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS of 0.02% at the 7th percentile reflects extremely low observed exploitation probability and aligns with the narrow race window required.

Denial Of Service Linux Google +3
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's ALSA USB-audio Scarlett2 mixer quirk allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel (denial of service) by presenting a malformed USB descriptor with zero endpoints. Affected systems running unpatched kernels from the initial commit onward through stable branches 6.1.x, 6.6.x, 6.12.x, 6.18.x, and 6.19.x are exposed whenever the USB-audio driver enumerates a crafted or emulated Scarlett2-type device. No active exploitation is confirmed (not in CISA KEV) and no public exploit identified at time of analysis; the EPSS score of 0.03% (8th percentile) confirms very low real-world exploitation probability.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's xhci USB host controller debugfs interface allows a local low-privileged user to crash the kernel (denial of service) by reading portli debugfs files. The flaw surfaces when xhci's max_ports count exceeds the number of ports covered by Supported Protocol capabilities - producing NULL rhub pointers - which the portli read handler dereferences without checking. No public exploit has been identified and EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), indicating negligible broad exploitation interest; the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's USB gadget f_tcm (USB Target Controller Module) driver allows an authenticated local attacker with USB host access to trigger a kernel panic by sending Bulk-Only Transport (BOT) commands during a race window where the ConfigFS-managed nexus pointer is uninitialized or torn down. Affected systems are those acting as USB gadgets - primarily embedded devices and single-board computers - running kernel versions from commit c52661d60f636d17e26ad834457db333bd1df494 onward without the applied fix. No public exploit exists and the vulnerability is absent from CISA KEV; EPSS of 0.02% (7th percentile) confirms negligible observed exploitation activity.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

Null pointer dereference in the Linux kernel USB NCM gadget subsystem (f_ncm) causes kernel crashes during USB device disconnection cycles. The vulnerability stems from a net_device lifecycle management flaw where the network device outlives its parent gadget device, leaving dangling sysfs links that trigger null pointer dereferences. Systems acting as USB NCM gadgets - common in embedded Linux, postmarketOS, and USB tethering scenarios - are exposed to local denial-of-service conditions upon USB reconnection. No public exploit exists and EPSS stands at 0.02%, indicating very low exploitation probability; however, the bug can be triggered by any low-privileged local user on an affected configuration.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's PowerPC perf subsystem crashes the kernel when user callchain collection is attempted after a thread's mm structure has been released. Local authenticated users with BPF execution privileges on PowerPC systems can trigger a kernel panic by running profiling tools such as bcc-tools' profile.py at the moment of thread exit, resulting in a full system denial of service. No public exploit has been identified at time of analysis and EPSS is 0.02% (4th percentile), reflecting low widespread exploitation probability; however, the bug is confirmed by kernel maintainers with a full panic trace and patches are available in stable kernel releases.

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

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's hisi_sas SCSI driver crashes systems when a local user triggers a host scan via sysfs. Authenticated local users with low privileges can write to the sysfs scan interface, causing kernel oops due to a channel iteration bug introduced in commit 37c4e72b0651 - the driver supports only one channel (channel 0) but its max_channel is set to 1, causing sas_user_scan() to attempt scanning channel 1 where no valid SAS device structure exists. The result is a denial-of-service via kernel NULL pointer dereference at sas_find_dev_by_rphy(). No public exploit or CISA KEV listing has been identified; EPSS is 0.02% (5th percentile), consistent with low-likelihood opportunistic exploitation.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +2
NVD VulDB
EPSS 0% CVSS 5.5
MEDIUM PATCH This Month

NULL pointer dereference in the Linux kernel's ASoC QCOM QDSP6 subsystem crashes systems built on Qualcomm SA8775P and SC8280XP SoCs during ADSP protection-domain restart cycles. The crash occurs because the q6apm-audio .remove callback prematurely deletes Runtime Descriptions (RTDs) containing q6apm DAI components during ASoC teardown, leaving those components still linked to the sound card and triggering a kernel oops on the subsequent rebind. Impact is limited to availability (kernel panic/denial of service); no public exploit has been identified at time of analysis, and EPSS at 0.02% reflects very low widespread exploitation probability.

Denial Of Service Linux Null Pointer Dereference +3
NVD VulDB
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