Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVE-2023-52425
Summary
The package libexpat through 2.5.0 allows a Denial of Service (Resource Consumption) because many full reparsings are required in the case of a large token for which multiple buffer fills are needed.
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- NETWORK
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- UNCHANGED
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- HIGH
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