Denial of Service
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 (36895)
A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Sysax Multi-Server version 6.10 via its SSH daemon. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and EPSS exploitation probability 48.9%.
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in libav up to 12.3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in libav up to 12.3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
Improper Input Validation vulnerability in Roche Diagnostics navify Monitoring allows an attacker to manipulate input data, which may lead to a denial of service (DoS) due to negatively impacting the. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Axiomatic Bento4 up to 1.6.0-641. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in libtiff 4.6.0. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.0). Public exploit code available.
An issue in Artifex mupdf 1.25.6, 1.25.5 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via an infinite recursion in the `mutool clean` utility. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
Cairo through 1.18.4, as used in Poppler through 25.08.0, has an "unscaled->face == NULL" assertion failure for _cairo_ft_unscaled_font_fini in cairo-ft-font.c. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.9), this vulnerability is no authentication required. No vendor patch available.
An issue in the pdfseparate utility of freedesktop poppler v25.04.0 allows attackers to cause an infinite recursion via supplying a crafted PDF file. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
Use After Free vulnerability in Arm Ltd Bifrost GPU Userspace Driver, Arm Ltd Valhall GPU Userspace Driver, Arm Ltd Arm 5th Gen GPU Architecture Userspace Driver allows a non-privileged user process. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
An unauthenticated remote attacker may trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the affected CODESYS Control runtime systems by sending specially crafted communication requests, potentially leading to a. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
In iperf before 3.19.1, iperf_auth.c has a Base64Decode assertion failure and application exit upon a malformed authentication attempt. Rated low severity (CVSS 3.7), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required.
NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager, where it allows a guest to access global resources. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
NVIDIA vGPU software contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager, where a malicious guest could cause a stack buffer overflow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ksmbd component. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity.
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's ksmbd component. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required.
NVIDIA vGPU software for Linux-style hypervisors contains a vulnerability in the Virtual GPU Manager, where a malicious guest could cause stack buffer overflow. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
NVIDIA GPU Display Driver for Windows contains a vulnerability where an attacker with local unprivileged access that can win a race condition might be able to trigger a use-after-free error. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.
NVIDIA .run Installer for Linux and Solaris contains a vulnerability where an attacker could use a race condition to escalate privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.0). No vendor patch available.
NVIDIA Display Driver for Windows and Linux contains a vulnerability where an attacker might cause an improper index validation by issuing a call with crafted parameters. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.1), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
NVIDIA Display Driver for Linux and Windows contains a vulnerability in the kernel mode driver, where an attacker could access memory outside bounds permitted under normal use cases. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
NVIDIA Installer for Windows contains a vulnerability where an attacker may be able to escalate privileges. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
Copyparty is a portable file server. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
Traefik is an HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable. This Path Traversal vulnerability could allow attackers to access files and directories outside the intended path.
A vulnerability was found in LibTIFF up to 4.7.0. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.0). Public exploit code available.
MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
MaterialX is an open standard for the exchange of rich material and look-development content across applications and renderers. Rated low severity (CVSS 2.0), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available.
Asterisk is an open source private branch exchange and telephony toolkit. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
OpenEXR provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, an image storage format for the motion picture industry. Rated medium severity (CVSS 4.6), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the IOMap64.sys driver of ASUS AI Suite 3. Rated medium severity (CVSS 6.7), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
LiteSpeed QUIC (LSQUIC) Library before 4.3.1 has an lsquic_engine_packet_in memory leak. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.3), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
In bootloader, there is a possible out of bounds write due to a missing bounds check. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.1), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
A flaw exists within the Linux kernel's handling of new TCP connections. Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.9), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, no authentication required. No vendor patch available.
Out-of-bounds read in macOS file processing can expose sensitive memory and crash applications when victims open maliciously crafted files. Affects macOS Ventura 13.x, Sonoma 14.x, and Sequoia 15.x prior to patched versions (13.7.7, 14.7.7, 15.6 respectively). Requires local access and user interaction (CVSS AV:L/UI:R). EPSS score of 0.02% (4th percentile) indicates minimal observed exploitation likelihood. No CISA KEV listing or public exploit identified at time of analysis, suggesting low immediate threat despite CVSS 7.1 rating.
Memory corruption vulnerabilities in Apple's graphics texture processing engine across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS allow remote code execution via maliciously crafted texture files. Affects all major Apple platforms prior to July 2025 updates (iOS/iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, tvOS 18.6, visionOS 2.6, watchOS 11.6). Despite a critical CVSS 9.8 score indicating network-exploitable remote code execution without authentication, EPSS shows only 0.18% exploitation probability (40th percentile), and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The vulnerability requires processing specially crafted texture data, likely through applications handling untrusted image or 3D content.
Out-of-bounds memory access in Apple media processing components affects iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS, allowing local attackers to crash applications or corrupt memory via malicious media files. Fixed in iOS/iPadOS 18.6, macOS Sequoia 15.6, tvOS 18.6, and visionOS 2.6. EPSS score of 0.02% (4th percentile) indicates minimal observed exploitation probability, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, suggesting lower immediate risk despite CVSS 7.1 rating.
Improper input validation in Apple's network configuration subsystem across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger denial-of-service conditions and enables non-privileged local users to modify restricted network settings. Fixed in iOS/iPadOS 18.6/17.7.9, macOS Sequoia 15.6, Sonoma 14.7.7, Ventura 13.7.7, tvOS 18.6, visionOS 2.6, and watchOS 11.6. EPSS score of 0.15% (36th percentile) indicates low predicted exploitation probability, and no public exploit identified at time of analysis.
Use-after-free memory corruption in Apple's operating systems (iPadOS 17.x, macOS Sequoia 15.x, Sonoma 14.x, Ventura 13.x) allows network-based attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service without authentication. The vulnerability was remediated by removing the vulnerable code entirely rather than patching it. Despite a critical CVSS 9.8 score, EPSS indicates only 0.08% exploitation probability (24th percentile), and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. Apple released patches in July 2025 across all affected platforms simultaneously.
Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Apple media processing frameworks allows local attackers to cause application crashes or disclose sensitive process memory by tricking users into opening malicious media files. Affects iOS/iPadOS 18.x, macOS Sequoia 15.x, tvOS 18.x, and visionOS 2.x prior to July 2025 security updates. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, with EPSS score of 0.02% indicating minimal observed exploitation activity. User interaction required (opening crafted file) reduces immediate risk despite 7.1 CVSS score.
Safari and Apple operating systems contain a use-after-free vulnerability in web content processing that causes unexpected application crashes when users visit maliciously crafted websites. The flaw affects Safari 18.5 and earlier, iOS 18.5 and earlier, iPadOS 18.5 and earlier (also iPadOS 17.7.8 and earlier), macOS Sequoia 15.5 and earlier, tvOS 18.5 and earlier, visionOS 2.5 and earlier, and watchOS 11.5 and earlier. Remote attackers can trigger a denial-of-service condition requiring only user interaction to visit a malicious page, with no elevated privileges required. Apple has released patches for all affected platforms; the EPSS score of 0.10% (28th percentile) indicates low real-world exploitation probability despite the accessibility of the attack vector.
Safari and related Apple platforms crash when processing maliciously crafted web content due to a memory handling vulnerability (buffer overflow). Affects Safari 18.5 and earlier, iOS 18.5 and earlier, iPadOS 18.5 and earlier, macOS Sequoia 15.5 and earlier, tvOS 18.5 and earlier, visionOS 2.5 and earlier, and watchOS 11.5 and earlier. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger a denial of service by hosting or injecting malicious web content, with user interaction required to visit the affected content. No public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed (EPSS 0.08% indicates minimal real-world exploitation activity to date).
Denial-of-service vulnerability in Apple's WebKit engine affects Safari, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS through improper memory handling during web content processing. Local attackers without authentication can trigger this vulnerability via crafted web content to cause application crashes. Vendor-released patches are available across all affected platforms; EPSS score of 0.02% indicates minimal real-world exploitation likelihood despite the moderate CVSS 6.2 rating.
Out-of-bounds write vulnerability in WebKit across Apple's entire operating system ecosystem allows remote code execution via maliciously crafted web content without user interaction or authentication. Affects iOS, iPadOS, macOS (Ventura through Sequoia), tvOS, visionOS, and watchOS prior to July 2025 security updates. Despite a critical 9.8 CVSS score indicating maximum severity, EPSS probability remains low at 0.14% (34th percentile), and no public exploit identified at time of analysis, suggesting limited observed exploitation attempts despite the theoretical remote attack surface.
Memory handling flaw in macOS allows remote denial-of-service via malicious application, affecting Sequoia 15.x, Sonoma 14.x, and Ventura 13.x systems prior to July 2025 security updates. Despite a critical 9.8 CVSS score indicating network-accessible attack with no authentication required, EPSS probability is low (0.10%, 27th percentile) and no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The severity rating appears inconsistent with the described impact (DoS only, no code execution), suggesting CVSS vector may require validation against actual attack requirements.
Buffer overflow memory corruption in Apple file parsing components allows remote code execution across iOS 18.6, iPadOS 18.6, macOS (Sequoia 15.6, Sonoma 14.7.7, Ventura 13.7.7), tvOS 18.6, visionOS 2.6, and watchOS 11.6. Unauthenticated attackers can trigger arbitrary code execution by delivering a maliciously crafted file requiring no user interaction beyond parsing. Despite CVSS 9.8 critical severity, EPSS score of 0.16% (37th percentile) indicates low observed exploitation probability. No public exploit identified at time of analysis and not listed in CISA KEV, suggesting theoretical risk exceeds current real-world threat activity.
Memory handling flaws in Apple's operating systems allow unauthenticated remote attackers to cause information disclosure and application crashes by sending maliciously crafted files. Affects iOS 18.x prior to 18.6, iPadOS 18.x prior to 18.6, macOS Sequoia prior to 15.6, tvOS prior to 18.6, and visionOS prior to 2.6. CVSS 9.1 (Critical) reflects network-accessible attack vector with no authentication required, though EPSS probability remains low at 0.12% (32nd percentile), and no public exploit or active exploitation confirmed at time of analysis.
Remote denial-of-service in Apple operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS, watchOS) allows unauthenticated network attackers to trigger unexpected system termination via improved checks bypass. Affects multiple OS versions prior to their respective May 2025 updates (iOS/iPadOS 18.5/17.7.9, macOS Sequoia 15.5/Ventura 13.7.7, tvOS 18.5, visionOS 2.5, watchOS 11.5). No public exploit identified at time of analysis. EPSS probability of 0.27% (51st percentile) suggests relatively low observed exploitation activity, though the network-accessible attack vector and lack of authentication requirements (CVSS AV:N/PR:N) create broad exposure surface across Apple's ecosystem.
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the web service of multiple TP-Link router models including TL-WR841N v11, TL-WR842ND v2, and TL-WR494N v3, caused by missing input validation in /userRpm/WlanNetworkRpm.htm. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this to crash the web service and cause a denial-of-service condition. The vulnerability has a low exploitation likelihood with EPSS score of 0.06% and affects products that are no longer supported by TP-Link.
Denial of service in GNOME GLib on Windows platforms occurs when an application uses GLib's process-spawning functions with excessively long command lines, causing the spawn operation to fail or crash the host process and disrupt availability. The flaw affects the GLib library's Windows command-line handling and impacts any Windows application that links GLib and passes attacker-influenced long argument strings to a child process. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue is not listed in CISA KEV; despite Red Hat tags mentioning RCE/Code Injection, the CVSS impact metrics confirm availability-only impact (C:N/I:N/A:H).
Denial of service in Linux kernel net/sched subsystem allows local authenticated attackers to trigger a kernel panic (BUG_ON) by manipulating HTB qdisc (hierarchical token bucket queue discipline) configuration with nested qdisc classes, causing htb_lookup_leaf to encounter an empty rbtree. The vulnerability requires low privilege and local access; no special user interaction is needed once a malicious qdisc configuration is set up. Vendor-released patches are available across multiple stable kernel series.
Null pointer dereference in GNU Binutils 2.44 BFD Library function bfd_elf_get_str_section causes denial of service when processing malformed ELF files locally. The vulnerability requires local access with limited privileges (PR:L) and publicly available exploit code exists, though EPSS scoring (0.04%, 12th percentile) indicates low real-world exploitation probability despite public disclosure.
Use-after-free vulnerability in LibTIFF up to version 4.7.0 affects the get_histogram function in tiffmedian.c, allowing local authenticated attackers to cause denial of service or limited data corruption. Despite a critical severity declaration and publicly available exploit code, the CVSS 4.0 vector assigns a low score (1.9) due to local-only access requirements, high attack complexity constraints, and limited impact scope; EPSS places real exploitation probability at 0.03%, suggesting this remains a low-priority issue in typical deployments.
A vulnerability was found in D-Link DI-8400 16.07.26A1. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part of the file usb_paswd.asp of the component jhttpd. The manipulation of the argument share_enable leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Linux kernel RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) header validation in the AMD GPU driver (amdgpu) lacks input sanitization, allowing a local authenticated attacker to trigger denial of service through excessive memory allocation when reading corrupted EEPROM data. The vulnerability affects all Linux kernel versions with the vulnerable amdgpu driver code path and requires local access with standard user privileges. No public exploit code has been identified; the EPSS score of 0.02% (5th percentile) indicates low real-world exploitation probability despite the moderate CVSS 5.5 rating.
A null pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel's interrupt simulation (genirq/irq_sim) subsystem where uninitialized pointers in the work context can be dereferenced, leading to kernel denial of service. The vulnerability affects Linux kernel versions including 6.16-rc1 and 6.16-rc2, and potentially earlier stable releases. A local attacker with unprivileged user privileges can trigger a kernel crash by invoking interrupt simulation functionality, causing system unavailability. Patches are available from the Linux kernel stable repositories, and exploitation probability is low (EPSS 0.02%, percentile 6%) despite the moderate CVSS score of 5.5.
Null pointer dereference in Linux kernel maple_tree memory allocator causes denial of service when the MA_STATE_PREALLOC flag is incorrectly managed during node allocation requests. Local authenticated attackers can trigger this via memory operations that request large numbers of nodes, such as VMA merges during mmap_region() calls, leading to WARN_ON() messages followed by kernel crash. Affects Linux kernel versions including 6.16 release candidates and is confirmed patched in stable branches.
HTTP denial-of-service in Kron Technologies Kron PAM (all versions before 3.7) allows a low-privileged authenticated remote attacker to exhaust server resources through unthrottled HTTP request processing. The CVSS vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) confirms the attack is network-reachable at low complexity, requiring only a valid user account, with full availability impact and no scope change. No public exploit code exists and the vulnerability has not been added to the CISA KEV catalog; EPSS sits at 0.28% (52nd percentile), indicating low-to-moderate real-world exploitation probability at time of analysis.
NULL pointer dereference in libssh crashes SSH clients or servers during the key exchange (KEX) process when a cryptographic memory allocation fails and the resulting NULL pointer is subsequently dereferenced. Affected products span all libssh versions per CPE data, with confirmed patching by Red Hat (RHSA-2026:18683) and upstream fixes committed to the libssh repository. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; EPSS at 0.03% (8th percentile) reflects very low observed exploitation interest, consistent with the local access requirement and high attack complexity.
Uncontrolled resource consumption in vBulletin 3.8.7 allows an authenticated forum user to crash the forum by requesting the misc.php?do=buddylist endpoint when their buddy list is sufficiently large, exhausting server memory and causing a denial-of-service condition. The affected version (3.8.7) is a legacy release of the vBulletin PHP forum software, limiting the real-world attack surface to older, unmaintained deployments. No public exploit identified at time of analysis via CISA KEV, but a publicly available proof-of-concept exists on GitHub; EPSS sits at 0.25% (16th percentile), indicating low exploitation probability in the current threat landscape.
Null pointer dereference in Firefox and Thunderbird JavaScript engines allows remote attackers to cause denial of service via malformed closed generator objects. The vulnerability affects Firefox versions below 141, Firefox ESR versions below 115.26/128.13/140.1, Thunderbird versions below 141/128.13/140.1, and is triggered when a user visits a malicious webpage or opens a crafted email containing JavaScript that improperly resumes a closed generator. While the CVSS score is 6.5 (medium-high), the impact is limited to availability-no information disclosure or code execution is possible.
Availability disruption in the H3C GR2200 router (firmware MiniGR1A0V100R016) arises because its bundled bftpd FTP daemon ships with USERLIMIT_GLOBAL set to 0 in /etc/bftpd.conf, imposing no ceiling on concurrent FTP sessions. Remote attackers can open large numbers of simultaneous connections to exhaust device sockets, memory, and CPU, degrading or crashing the FTP service and potentially the router itself. A public technical writeup exists and EPSS is modest (0.52%, 40th percentile); there is no public exploit identified beyond that writeup and no evidence of active exploitation (not listed in CISA KEV).
Uncontrolled resource consumption in the TRENDnet TPL-430AP powerline access point (firmware FW1.0) stems from its bundled bftpd FTP daemon shipping with USERLIMIT_GLOBAL=0, which imposes no cap on concurrent connections. A remote attacker can open unlimited simultaneous FTP sessions to exhaust device memory and connection resources, rendering the access point unresponsive (availability-only impact, no data compromise). No public exploit code has been confirmed, though a researcher gist and writeup describing the issue exist; EPSS risk is modest at 0.52% and the CVE is not listed in CISA KEV.
Heap buffer overflow in 7-Zip's RAR5 handler writes zeroes beyond allocated heap memory, causing memory corruption and denial of service in versions prior to 25.0.0. Local attackers can trigger this vulnerability by crafting malicious RAR5 archive files. Publicly available exploit code exists, making this a moderate-priority local vulnerability despite its network-isolated attack surface.
Arbitrary file deletion in Counter live visitors for WooCommerce plugin (WordPress) versions ≤1.3.6 allows unauthenticated attackers to delete entire directories on the server through insufficient path validation in wcvisitor_get_block function. Exploitation wipes all files within targeted directories, causing data loss or denial of service. Attack requires no authentication (CVSS PR:N). No public exploit identified at time of analysis.
NanoMQ v0.22.10 was discovered to contain a memory leak which allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted PUBLISH message.
NanoMQ v0.22.10 was discovered to contain a heap overflow which allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted CONNECT message.
CVE-2024-42646 is a segmentation fault vulnerability in NanoMQ v0.21.10 that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted messages. This is a network-accessible DoS vulnerability with high availability impact (CVSS 7.5) that affects message broker deployments. The vulnerability requires no authentication or user interaction, making it easily exploitable in production environments.
A vulnerability was found in chinese-poetry 0.1. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file rank/server.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
py-libp2p before 0.2.3 allows a peer to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) via a large RSA key.
In PHP versions:8.1.* before 8.1.33, 8.2.* before 8.2.29, 8.3.* before 8.3.23, 8.4.* before 8.4.10 when parsing XML data in SOAP extensions, overly large (>2Gb) XML namespace prefix may lead to null pointer dereference. This may lead to crashes and affect the availability of the target server.
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Open5GS up to 2.7.3. Affected by this vulnerability is the function ngap_recv_handler/s1ap_recv_handler/recv_handler of the component SCTP Partial Message Handler. The manipulation leads to reachable assertion. The attack needs to be approached locally. The patch is named cfa44575020f3fb045fd971358442053c8684d3d. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
A vulnerability was found in Artifex GhostPDL up to 3989415a5b8e99b9d1b87cc9902bde9b7cdea145. It has been classified as problematic. This affects the function pdf_ferror of the file devices/vector/gdevpdf.c of the component New Output File Open Error Handler. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The identifier of the patch is 619a106ba4c4abed95110f84d5efcd7aee38c7cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
CVE-2025-24294 is a Denial of Service vulnerability in DNS packet parsing libraries (specifically the resolv library) caused by insufficient validation of decompressed domain name lengths. An attacker can send a crafted DNS packet with a highly compressed domain name that, when decompressed, consumes excessive CPU resources without limit, causing the parsing thread to become unresponsive. The vulnerability affects any application using the vulnerable resolv library and has a CVSS score of 7.5 (high severity); real-world exploitation probability and active exploitation status cannot be confirmed without EPSS score and KEV data.
CVE-2023-38036 is a critical unauthenticated buffer overflow vulnerability in Ivanti Avalanche Manager prior to version 6.4.1 that allows remote attackers to cause denial of service or achieve arbitrary code execution without authentication. With a CVSS score of 9.8 and network-based attack vector, this vulnerability has significant real-world exploitability risk and affects all organizations deploying vulnerable Avalanche Manager instances.
Open OnDemand is an open-source HPC portal. Users can flood logs by interacting with the shell app and generating many errors. Users who flood logs can create very large log files causing a Denial of Service (DoS) to the ondemand system. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.1.14 and 4.0.6.
CVE-2025-30403 is a heap buffer overflow vulnerability in Meta's mvfst QUIC implementation that allows remote attackers without privileges to trigger memory corruption and cause denial of service or potentially read sensitive data from heap memory. The vulnerability affects mvfst versions prior to v2025.07.07.00 and requires user interaction (opening a malicious QUIC connection), with a high CVSS score of 8.1 reflecting the severity of memory safety issues, though KEV status and EPSS probability data are not currently available in public disclosures.
A Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a local, low privileged user to cause an impact to the availability of the device. When RIB sharding is enabled and a user executes one of several routing related 'show' commands, a certain amount of memory is leaked. When all available memory has been consumed rpd will crash and restart. The leak can be monitored with the CLI command: show task memory detail | match task_shard_mgmt_cookie where the allocated memory in bytes can be seen to continuously increase with each exploitation. This issue affects: Junos OS: * all versions before 21.2R3-S9, * 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S11, * 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S7, * 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S7, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S4, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R2, * 24.4 versions before 24.4R1-S2, 24.4R2; Junos OS Evolved: * all versions before 22.2R3-S7-EVO * 22.4-EVO versions before 22.4R3-S7-EVO, * 23.2-EVO versions before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, * 23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R2-S4-EVO, * 24.2-EVO versions before 24.2R2-EVO, * 24.4-EVO versions before 24.4R2-EVO.
A NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause impact to the availability of the device. When static route points to a reject next hop and a gNMI query is processed for that static route, rpd crashes and restarts. This issue affects: Junos OS: * all versions before 21.2R3-S9, * 21.4 versions before 21.4R3-S10, * 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6, * 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6, * 23.2 versions before 23.2R2-S3, * 23.4 versions before 23.4R2-S4, * 24.2 versions before 24.2R1-S2, 24.2R2; Junos OS Evolved: * all versions before 22.4R3-S7-EVO, * 23.2-EVO versions before 23.2R2-S3-EVO, * 23.4-EVO versions before 23.4R2-S4-EVO, * 24.2-EVO versions before 24.2R2-EVO.
An Improper Resource Shutdown or Release vulnerability in the SIP ALG of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with MS-MPC allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial-of-Service (DoS). When an MX Series device with an MS-MPC is configured with two or more service sets which are both processing SIP calls, a specific sequence of call events will lead to a crash and restart of the MS-MPC. This issue affects Junos OS: * all versions before 21.2R3-S9, * 21.4 versions from 21.4R1, * 22.2 versions before 22.2R3-S6, * 22.4 versions before 22.4R3-S6. As the MS-MPC is EoL after Junos OS 22.4, later versions are not affected. This issue does not affect MX-SPC3 or SRX Series devices.
A denial of service vulnerability (CVSS 7.5). High severity vulnerability requiring prompt remediation.
A denial of service vulnerability (CVSS 7.5). High severity vulnerability requiring prompt remediation.
A Reachable Assertion vulnerability in the Routing Protocol Daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated, network-based attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). When the device receives a specific BGP UPDATE packet, the rpd crashes and restarts. Continuous receipt of this specific packet will cause a sustained DoS condition. For the issue to occur, BGP multipath with "pause-computation-during-churn" must be configured on the device, and the attacker must send the paths via a BGP UPDATE from a established BGP peer. This issue affects: Junos OS: * All versions before 21.4R3-S7, * from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S5, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2. Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 21.4R3-S7-EVO, * from 22.3 before 22.3R3-S3-EVO, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S5-EVO, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-EVO, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-EVO.
A Reachable Assertion vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent, unauthenticated attacker to cause a Denial of Service (DoS).On all Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved devices, when route validation is enabled, a rare condition during BGP initial session establishment can lead to an rpd crash and restart. This occurs specifically when the connection request fails during error-handling scenario. Continued session establishment failures leads to a sustained DoS condition. This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 22.2R3-S6, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S6, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2; Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 22.2R3-S6-EVO, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S6-EVO, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3-EVO, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4-EVO, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO.
An Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an adjacent unauthenticated attacker to cause a memory corruption that leads to a rpd crash. When the logical interface using a routing instance flaps continuously, specific updates are sent to the jflow/sflow modules. This results in memory corruption, leading to an rpd crash and restart. Continued receipt of these specific updates will cause a sustained Denial of Service condition. This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 21.2R3-S9, * All versions of 21.4, * All versions of 22.2, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2. Junos OS Evolved: * All versions of 21.2-EVO, * All versions of 21.4-EVO, * All versions of 22.2-EVO, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7-EVO, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3-EVO, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4-EVO, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-EVO.
An Expected Behavior Violation vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker sending a valid BGP UPDATE packet to cause a BGP session reset, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continuous receipt and processing of this packet will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects iBGP and eBGP and both IPv4 and IPv6 are affected by this vulnerability. This issue affects Junos OS: * All versions before 21.2R3-S9, * from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S11, * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S7, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S4, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S4, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2, * from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S3, 24.4R2 Junos OS Evolved: * All versions before 22.2R3-S7-EVO, * from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-S7-EVO, * from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, * from 23.4-EVO before 23.4R2-S4-EVO, * from 24.2-EVO before 24.2R2-EVO, * from 24.4-EVO before 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
An Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in the connectivity fault management (CFM) daemon of Juniper Networks Junos OS on MX Series with MPC-BUILTIN, MPC1 through MPC9 line cards allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to send a malformed packet to the device, leading to an FPC crash and restart, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continued receipt and processing of this packet will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. This issue affects Juniper Networks: Junos OS: * All versions before 22.2R3-S1, * from 22.4 before 22.4R2. This feature is not enabled by default.
An Improper Handling of Length Parameter Inconsistency vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a logically adjacent BGP peer sending a specifically malformed BGP packet to cause rpd to crash and restart, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). Continued receipt and processing of this packet will create a sustained Denial of Service (DoS) condition. Only systems configured for Ethernet Virtual Private Networking (EVPN) signaling are vulnerable to this issue. This issue affects iBGP and eBGP, and both IPv4 and IPv6 are affected by this vulnerability.This issue affects: Junos OS: * all versions before 21.4R3-S11, * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S7, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S4, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S5, * from 24.2 before 24.2R2-S1, * from 24.4 before 24.4R1-S3, 24.4R2; Junos OS Evolved: * all versions before 22.2R3-S7-EVO, * from 22.4-EVO before 22.4R3-S7-EVO, * from 23.2-EVO before 23.2R2-S4-EVO, * from 23.4-EVO before 23.4R2-S5-EVO, * from 24.2-EVO before 24.2R2-S1-EVO, * from 24.4-EVO before 24.4R1-S3-EVO, 24.4R2-EVO.
An Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) processing of Juniper Networks Junos OS allows an attacker, in rare cases, sending specific, unknown traffic patterns to cause the FPC and system to crash and restart. BPF provides a raw interface to data link layers in a protocol independent fashion. Internally within the Junos kernel, due to a rare timing issue (race condition), when a BPF instance is cloned, the newly created interface causes an internal structure leakage, leading to a system crash. The precise content and timing of the traffic patterns is indeterminate, but has been seen in a lab environment multiple times. This issue is more likely to occur when packet capturing is enabled. See required configuration below. This issue affects Junos OS: * all versions before 21.2R3-S9, * from 21.4 before 21.4R3-S10, * from 22.2 before 22.2R3-S6, * from 22.4 before 22.4R3-S7, * from 23.2 before 23.2R2-S3, * from 23.4 before 23.4R2-S3, * from 24.2 before 24.2R1-S1, 24.2R2.