Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE-2015-9548
Summary
An issue was discovered in Mattermost Server before 1.2.0. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a small compressed file that has a large size when uncompressed.
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CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption
An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published