CWE-400 3092 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Overview

CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined
technology Not Technology-Specific Undetermined
technology AI/ML Often

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-50011 2026-06-12 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, RedisArrayAggregator pre-allocates ArrayList with initial ca…
CVE-2026-48043 2026-06-12 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In netty-codec-http2 prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, the `DelegatingDecompressorFrameListene…
CVE-2026-47244 2026-06-12 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, DefaultHttp2Connection.DefaultEndpoint initialises maxActive…
CVE-2026-50645 2026-06-12 There is no restriction on the amount of attachment headers that a message can contain when being deserialized by Apache CXF, which can lead to uncontrolled resource consumption or a denial of service…
CVE-2026-45169 2026-06-12 Idira Privileged Access Manager (PAM) Self-Hosted Vault versions prior to 15.0.3, 14.6.5, 14.2.7, and 14.0.8 exhibit a validation vulnerability. Under specific circumstances and configuration scenario…
CVE-2026-44892 2026-06-12 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. Prior to version 4.2.15.Final, the default configuration of the `Http3ConnectionHandler` in the Netty HTTP/3 c…
CVE-2026-44890 2026-06-11 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In netty-codec-redis prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, an attacker can cause DoS by sending cr…
CVE-2026-44250 2026-06-11 Netty is a network application framework for development of protocol servers and clients. In netty-codec-redis prior to versions 4.1.135.Final and 4.2.15.Final, an attacker can cause DoS by sending a …
CVE-2026-45802 2026-06-11 FPDI is a collection of PHP classes that facilitate reading pages from existing PDF documents and using them as templates in FPDF. Prior to version 2.6.7, an attacker can upload a small, malicious PDF…
CVE-2026-44496 2026-06-11 Axios is a promise based HTTP client for the browser and Node.js. Axios versions before 0.32.0 on the 0.x line and before 1.16.0 on the 1.x line build a regular expression from the configured XSRF coo…
CVE-2026-5497 2026-06-11 vLLM versions 0.8.0 and later are vulnerable to an Out-of-Memory (OOM) Denial of Service (DoS) attack due to unbounded frame count processing in the `VideoMediaIO.load_base64()` method. When processin…
CVE-2026-47734 2026-06-10 Dulwich is a pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols. Starting in version 0.1.0 and prior to version 1.2.5, a client with push access could push a tiny crafted thin pack (~174…
CVE-2026-46689 2026-06-10 Kanidm is an identity management platform. Prior to version 1.9.3, a single unauthenticated GET to any /scim/v1/... endpoint with a ?filter= query string of a few thousand nested parentheses (≈ 4–12 K…
CVE-2026-46679 2026-06-10 libp2p is a JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Prior to version 15.0.23, three cooperating omissions in @libp2p/gossipsub allow an unauthenticated single peer to exhaust the Node.js…
CVE-2026-46522 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 7.1.2.23 and 6.9.13-48, due to a missing check in the MIFF decoder, a crafted file coul…
CVE-2026-45783 2026-06-10 libp2p is a JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Prior to version 16.2.6, an unauthenticated remote peer can exhaust the disk storage of any @libp2p/kad-dht node running in server mod…
CVE-2026-45664 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-47 and 7.1.2-22, because of a missing check in the MNG coder it would be possibl…
CVE-2026-45031 2026-06-10 ImageMagick is free and open-source software used for editing and manipulating digital images. Prior to versions 6.9.13-47 and 7.1.2-22, due to a missing check in the PSD decoder it would be possible …
CVE-2026-10143 2026-06-10 kafka-python prior to 2.3.2 contains a denial-of-service vulnerability in SCRAM authentication handling that allows a malicious or machine-in-the-middle broker to freeze the client event loop by suppl…
CVE-2026-41721 2026-06-10 Spring Data Commons contains a vulnerability that can lead to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition if Spring Data Web Support is enabled in conjunction with a Controller method using @ProjectedPayload,…

Previous names

  • Resource Exhaustion (2008-10-14)
  • Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (aka 'Resource Exhaustion') (2009-05-27)
  • Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') (2019-01-03)

Content submission

Name
CLASP
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Time_of_Introduction
2008-08-15 1.0 Suggested OWASP Top Ten 2004 mapping
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Other_Notes, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-10-14 CWE Content Team 1.0.1 updated Description, Name, Relationships
2009-01-12 CWE Content Team 1.2 updated Description
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Name, Relationships
2009-07-27 CWE Content Team 1.5 updated Description, Relationships
2009-10-29 CWE Content Team 1.6 updated Relationships
2009-12-28 CWE Content Team 1.7 updated Common_Consequences, Demonstrative_Examples, Detection_Factors, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Observed_Examples, Other_Notes, Potential_Mitigations, References
2010-02-16 CWE Content Team 1.8 updated Detection_Factors, Potential_Mitigations, References, Taxonomy_Mappings
2010-04-05 CWE Content Team 1.8.1 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2010-06-21 CWE Content Team 1.9 updated Description
2010-09-27 CWE Content Team 1.10 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2015-12-07 CWE Content Team 2.9 updated Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships
2017-01-19 CWE Content Team 2.10 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Applicable_Platforms, Demonstrative_Examples, Likelihood_of_Exploit, Potential_Mitigations, References, Relationships
2018-03-27 CWE Content Team 3.1 updated References, Type
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Alternate_Terms, Description, Name, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings, Theoretical_Notes
2019-06-20 CWE Content Team 3.3 updated Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships
2019-09-19 CWE Content Team 3.4 updated Description, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Description, References, Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships
2020-06-25 CWE Content Team 4.1 updated Description, Maintenance_Notes
2020-08-20 CWE Content Team 4.2 updated Relationships
2022-04-28 CWE Content Team 4.7 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2022-06-28 CWE Content Team 4.8 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team 4.9 updated Observed_Examples, Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Common_Consequences, Description, Detection_Factors, Maintenance_Notes, Related_Attack_Patterns, Taxonomy_Mappings
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes, Relationships
2024-11-19 CWE Content Team 4.16 updated Relationships
2025-04-03 CWE Content Team 4.17 updated Common_Consequences, Description, Diagram, Modes_of_Introduction, Other_Notes, Time_of_Introduction
2025-09-09 CWE Content Team 4.18 updated Observed_Examples, References
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Maintenance_Notes, Weakness_Ordinalities
2026-04-30 CWE Content Team 4.20 updated Applicable_Platforms, Maintenance_Notes, Mapping_Notes, Other_Notes

Contributions

Type Name Date Comment
Content "Mapping CWE to 62443" Sub-Working Group 2023-01-24 Suggested mappings to ISA/IEC 62443.
Content "Mapping CWE to 62443" Sub-Working Group 2023-04-25 Suggested mappings to ISA/IEC 62443.
Content Abhi Balakrishnan 2025-02-25 Provided diagram to improve CWE usability.
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