CWE-406
Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification)
Description
The product does not sufficiently monitor or control transmitted network traffic volume, so that an actor can cause the product to transmit more traffic than should be allowed for that actor.
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CVEs mapped to this weakness (20)
| CVE | Vendor / Product | Sev | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | KEV | Published | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-0028 | Hig | 0.68 | 8.6 | 0.02 | KEV | Aug 10, 2022 | A PAN-OS URL filtering policy misconfiguration could allow a network-based attacker to conduct reflected and amplified TCP denial-of-service (RDoS) attacks. The DoS attack would appear to originate from a Palo Alto Networks PA-Series (hardware), VM-Series (virtual) and CN-Series… | |
| CVE-2021-38135 | Hig | 0.56 | 8.6 | 0.00 | Nov 22, 2024 | Possible External Service Interaction attack in iManager has been discovered in OpenText™ iManager 3.2.6.0000. | ||
| CVE-2021-38487 | Hig | 0.54 | 8.2 | 0.03 | May 5, 2022 | RTI Connext Professional versions 4.1 to 6.1.0, and Connext Micro versions 2.4 and later are vulnerable when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood target devices with unwanted traffic. This may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure. | ||
| CVE-2023-49203 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Sep 18, 2024 | Technitium 11.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth amplification) because the DNSBomb manipulation causes accumulation of low-rate DNS queries such that there is a large-sized response in a burst of traffic. | ||
| CVE-2023-28456 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Sep 18, 2024 | An issue was discovered in Technitium through 11.0.2. It enables attackers to launch amplification attacks (3 times more than other "golden model" software like BIND) and cause potential DoS. | ||
| CVE-2023-28455 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Sep 18, 2024 | An issue was discovered in Technitium through 11.0.2. The forwarding mode enables attackers to create a query loop using Technitium resolvers, launching amplification attacks and causing potential DoS. | ||
| CVE-2024-25015 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.01 | May 1, 2024 | IBM MQ 9.2 LTS, 9.3 LTS, and 9.3 CD Internet Pass-Thru could allow a remote user to cause a denial of service by sending HTTP requests that would consume all available resources. IBM X-Force ID: 281278. | ||
| CVE-2021-4234 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Jul 6, 2022 | OpenVPN Access Server 2.10 and prior versions are susceptible to resending multiple packets in a response to a reset packet sent from the client which the client again does not respond to, resulting in a limited amplification attack. | ||
| CVE-2021-43547 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.02 | May 5, 2022 | TwinOaks Computing CoreDX DDS versions prior to 5.9.1 are susceptible to exploitation when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood target devices with unwanted traffic. This may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure. | ||
| CVE-2021-38425 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.05 | May 5, 2022 | eProsima Fast DDS versions prior to 2.4.0 (#2269) are susceptible to exploitation when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood a target device with unwanted traffic, which may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure. | ||
| CVE-2020-10772 | Hig | 0.49 | 7.5 | 0.01 | Nov 27, 2020 | An incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662 was shipped for Unbound in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as part of erratum RHSA-2020:2414. Vulnerable versions of Unbound could still amplify an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target, even with a lower… | ||
| CVE-2021-38429 | Med | 0.43 | 6.6 | 0.01 | May 5, 2022 | OCI OpenDDS versions prior to 3.18.1 are vulnerable when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood target devices with unwanted traffic, which may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure. | ||
| CVE-2026-68080 | Med | 0.42 | 6.5 | 0.00 | Aug 5, 2026 | It was not possible to govern the rate at which the broker would respond to an echo flow, enabling an authenticated attacker to cause excessive resource usage and potential denial of service. This issue affects Apache Qpid Broker-J: through 10.0.1. Users are recommended to… | ||
| CVE-2026-45557 | Med | 0.38 | 5.8 | 0.00 | May 19, 2026 | Technitium DNS Server aggressively tries to fetch missing RRSIG records or mismatched DNSKEY records. An attacker in control of a domain can cause a vulnerable system to generate excessive network traffic. Fixed in 15.0. | ||
| CVE-2020-2100 | Med | 0.31 | 5.8 | 0.03 | Jan 29, 2020 | Jenkins 2.218 and earlier, LTS 2.204.1 and earlier was vulnerable to a UDP amplification reflection denial of service attack on port 33848. | ||
| CVE-2026-50045 | Med | 0.27 | 5.3 | 0.00 | Jul 22, 2026 | In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.22.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a single client query for a deeply nested name under a DNSSEC-signed parent can cause Unbound to send more upstream packets per client query than the configured 'max-global-quota'. This effectively bypasses a security… | ||
| CVE-2025-58066 | Med | 0.27 | 5.3 | 0.00 | Aug 29, 2025 | nptd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer's clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. In versions between 1.2.0 and 1.6.1 inclusive servers which allow non-NTS traffic are affected by a denial of service vulnerability, where an attacker can induce a message storm… | ||
| CVE-2019-14850 | Low | 0.24 | 3.7 | 0.02 | Mar 18, 2021 | A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit 1.12.7, 1.14.1 and 1.15.1. An attacker could connect to the nbdkit service and cause it to perform a large amount of work in initializing backend plugins, by simply opening a connection to the service. This vulnerability… | ||
| CVE-2014-125036 | Low | 0.10 | 2.6 | 0.00 | Jan 2, 2023 | A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in drybjed ansible-ntp. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file meta/main.yml. The manipulation leads to insufficient control of network message volume. The attack can only be done… | ||
| CVE-2026-54609 | Hig | 0.00 | 8.6 | 0.00 | Jul 28, 2026 | QTI Neon is a minimal, game-agnostic, relay-based UDP multiplayer protocol library. In version 1.0.0, the relay's handleReconnectRequest forwards RECONNECT_REQUEST packets to the host without bounding them, so an unauthenticated client can drive relay-to-host amplification and… |
- risk 0.68cvss 8.6epss 0.02
A PAN-OS URL filtering policy misconfiguration could allow a network-based attacker to conduct reflected and amplified TCP denial-of-service (RDoS) attacks. The DoS attack would appear to originate from a Palo Alto Networks PA-Series (hardware), VM-Series (virtual) and CN-Series…
- risk 0.56cvss 8.6epss 0.00
Possible External Service Interaction attack in iManager has been discovered in OpenText™ iManager 3.2.6.0000.
- risk 0.54cvss 8.2epss 0.03
RTI Connext Professional versions 4.1 to 6.1.0, and Connext Micro versions 2.4 and later are vulnerable when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood target devices with unwanted traffic. This may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure.
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.01
Technitium 11.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth amplification) because the DNSBomb manipulation causes accumulation of low-rate DNS queries such that there is a large-sized response in a burst of traffic.
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.01
An issue was discovered in Technitium through 11.0.2. It enables attackers to launch amplification attacks (3 times more than other "golden model" software like BIND) and cause potential DoS.
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.01
An issue was discovered in Technitium through 11.0.2. The forwarding mode enables attackers to create a query loop using Technitium resolvers, launching amplification attacks and causing potential DoS.
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.01
IBM MQ 9.2 LTS, 9.3 LTS, and 9.3 CD Internet Pass-Thru could allow a remote user to cause a denial of service by sending HTTP requests that would consume all available resources. IBM X-Force ID: 281278.
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.01
OpenVPN Access Server 2.10 and prior versions are susceptible to resending multiple packets in a response to a reset packet sent from the client which the client again does not respond to, resulting in a limited amplification attack.
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.02
TwinOaks Computing CoreDX DDS versions prior to 5.9.1 are susceptible to exploitation when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood target devices with unwanted traffic. This may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure.
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.05
eProsima Fast DDS versions prior to 2.4.0 (#2269) are susceptible to exploitation when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood a target device with unwanted traffic, which may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure.
- risk 0.49cvss 7.5epss 0.01
An incomplete fix for CVE-2020-12662 was shipped for Unbound in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, as part of erratum RHSA-2020:2414. Vulnerable versions of Unbound could still amplify an incoming query into a large number of queries directed to a target, even with a lower…
- risk 0.43cvss 6.6epss 0.01
OCI OpenDDS versions prior to 3.18.1 are vulnerable when an attacker sends a specially crafted packet to flood target devices with unwanted traffic, which may result in a denial-of-service condition and information exposure.
- risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00
It was not possible to govern the rate at which the broker would respond to an echo flow, enabling an authenticated attacker to cause excessive resource usage and potential denial of service. This issue affects Apache Qpid Broker-J: through 10.0.1. Users are recommended to…
- risk 0.38cvss 5.8epss 0.00
Technitium DNS Server aggressively tries to fetch missing RRSIG records or mismatched DNSKEY records. An attacker in control of a domain can cause a vulnerable system to generate excessive network traffic. Fixed in 15.0.
- risk 0.31cvss 5.8epss 0.03
Jenkins 2.218 and earlier, LTS 2.204.1 and earlier was vulnerable to a UDP amplification reflection denial of service attack on port 33848.
- risk 0.27cvss 5.3epss 0.00
In NLnet Labs Unbound 1.22.0 up to and including 1.25.1, a single client query for a deeply nested name under a DNSSEC-signed parent can cause Unbound to send more upstream packets per client query than the configured 'max-global-quota'. This effectively bypasses a security…
- risk 0.27cvss 5.3epss 0.00
nptd-rs is a tool for synchronizing your computer's clock, implementing the NTP and NTS protocols. In versions between 1.2.0 and 1.6.1 inclusive servers which allow non-NTS traffic are affected by a denial of service vulnerability, where an attacker can induce a message storm…
- risk 0.24cvss 3.7epss 0.02
A denial of service vulnerability was discovered in nbdkit 1.12.7, 1.14.1 and 1.15.1. An attacker could connect to the nbdkit service and cause it to perform a large amount of work in initializing backend plugins, by simply opening a connection to the service. This vulnerability…
- risk 0.10cvss 2.6epss 0.00
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in drybjed ansible-ntp. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file meta/main.yml. The manipulation leads to insufficient control of network message volume. The attack can only be done…
- risk 0.00cvss 8.6epss 0.00
QTI Neon is a minimal, game-agnostic, relay-based UDP multiplayer protocol library. In version 1.0.0, the relay's handleReconnectRequest forwards RECONNECT_REQUEST packets to the host without bounding them, so an unauthenticated client can drive relay-to-host amplification and…