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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-53299

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

The request handling in the Apache Wicket on any platform allows an attacker to create a DOS via multiple requests to server resources. This issue affects org.apache.wicket:wicket-core package versions 7.0.0-M1 through 7.18.0, 8.0.0-M1 through 8.16.0, 9.0.0-M1 through 9.18.0 and 10.0.0-M1 through 10.2.0.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE
  • 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