CWE-409 — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
CWE-409: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
MITRE CWE weakness
| Kind | Weakness |
| Abstraction | Base |
| Status | Incomplete |
| Likelihood of exploit | — |
Description
The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.
An example of data amplification is a "decompression bomb," a small ZIP file that can produce a large amount of data when it is decompressed.
Common consequences
- Availability: DoS: Amplification, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Mitigations
(none listed)
References
- CWE page: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/409.html
- CWE list: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/index.html