Description

The server is rendered unresponsive by successively repeating a request which consumes a lot of resources or takes too long to be processed.

Impact

Deny temporary or permanently the access to one or several application services.

Recommendation

Define a time-out when a query or a search is taking a lot of time processing the information

Threat

Anonymous attacker from the Internet.

Expected Remediation Time

⌚ 60 minutes.

Score

Default score using CVSS 3.1. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Privileges required: N
• User interaction: N
• Scope: U
• Confidentiality: N
• Integrity: N
• Availability: H

Temporal

• Exploit code maturity: P
• Remediation level: U
• Report confidence: R

Result

• Vector string: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:U/RC:R
• Score:
• Base: 7.5
• Temporal: 6.8
• Severity:
• Base: High
• Temporal: Medium

Score 4.0

Default score using CVSS 4.0. It may change depending on the context of the src.

Base 4.0

• Attack vector: N
• Attack complexity: L
• Attack Requirements: N
• Privileges required: N
• User interaction: N
• Confidentiality (VC): N
• Integrity (VI): N
• Availability (VA): H
• Confidentiality (SC): N
• Integrity (SI): N
• Availability (SA): N

Threat 4.0

• Exploit maturity: U

Result 4.0

• Vector string: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
• Score:
• CVSS-BT: 6.6
• Severity:
• CVSS-BT: Medium

Requirements

• 072.Set maximum response time
• 327.Set a rate limit

Fixes

• Java
• Elixir
• C-Sharp
• Go
• Ruby
• Dart
• PHP
• Scala
• Python
• TypeScript

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