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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2025-57751

High
7.7/10

Summary

A vulnerability exists in pyLoad, it is the free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python. The "jk" parameter is received in pyLoad CNL Blueprint. Due to the lack of "jk" parameter verification, the "jk" parameter input by the user is directly determined as "dykpy.evaljs()", resulting in the server CPU being fully occupied and the web-ui becoming unresponsive. This vulnerability affects versions through 0.5.0b3.dev91.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE

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