Skip to main content

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2025-52636

Severity Low
Score 1.8/10

Summary

HCL AION is affected by a vulnerability related to the handling of upload size limits. Improper control or validation of upload sizes may allow excessive resource consumption, which could potentially lead to service degradation or denial-of-service conditions under certain scenarios.

  • HIGH
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • HIGH
  • NONE
  • LOW

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.

References

Advisory Timeline

  • Published