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Excessive Iteration

ID: 834Date: (C)2012-05-14   (M)2022-10-10
Type: weaknessStatus: INCOMPLETE
Abstraction Type: Base





Description

The software performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.

Extended Description

If the iteration can be influenced by an attacker, this weakness could allow attackers to consume excessive resources such as CPU or memory. In many cases, a loop does not need to be infinite in order to cause enough resource consumption to adversely affect the software or its host system; it depends on the amount of resources consumed per iteration.

Applicable Platforms
None

Common Consequences

ScopeTechnical ImpactNotes
Availability
 
DoS: resource consumption (CPU)
DoS: resource consumption (memory)
DoS: amplification
DoS: crash / exit / restart
 
Excessive looping will cause unexpected consumption of resources, such as CPU cycles or memory. The software's operation may slow down, or cause a long time to respond. If limited resources such as memory are consumed for each iteration, the loop may eventually cause a crash or program exit due to exhaustion of resources, such as an out-of-memory error.
 

Detection Methods
None

Potential Mitigations
None

Relationships

Related CWETypeViewChain
CWE-834 ChildOf CWE-691 Weakness CWE-1000
CWE-699 
 

Demonstrative Examples
None

White Box Definitions
None

Black Box Definitions
None

Taxynomy Mappings
None

References:

  1. Mark Dowd John McDonald Justin Schuh .The Art of Software Security Assessment 1st Edition. Addison Wesley. Section:'Chapter 7, "Looping Constructs", Page 327.'. Published on 2006.
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