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CWE-1050 — Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop

provenance: imported · CWE: CWE-1050

CWE-1050: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop

MITRE CWE weakness

Kind Weakness
Abstraction Base
Status Incomplete
Likelihood of exploit

Description

The product has a loop body or loop condition that contains a control element that directly or indirectly consumes platform resources, e.g. messaging, sessions, locks, or file descriptors.

Common consequences

  • Availability: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory), DoS: Resource Consumption (Other), Reduce Performance

Mitigations

(none listed)

References

  • CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1050.html
  • CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html