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CWE-774

Allocation of File Descriptors or Handles Without Limits or Throttling

VariantIncompleteLikelihood: Low

Description

The product allocates file descriptors or handles on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on how many descriptors can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

This can cause the product to consume all available file descriptors or handles, which can prevent other processes from performing critical file processing operations.

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CVEs mapped to this weakness (4)

  • CVE-2026-27887MedFeb 26, 2026
    risk 0.45cvss epss 0.00

    Spin is an open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly. When Spin is configured to allow connections to a database or web server which could return responses of unbounded size (e.g. tables with many rows or large content…

  • CVE-2024-48848MedMay 22, 2025
    risk 0.42cvss 6.5epss 0.00

    Large content vulnerabilities are present in ASPECT exposing a device to disk overutilization on a system if administrator credentials become compromisedThis issue affects ASPECT-Enterprise: through 3.*; NEXUS Series: through 3.*; MATRIX Series: through 3.*.

  • CVE-2026-27204Feb 24, 2026
    risk 0.00cvss epss 0.00

    Wasmtime is a runtime for WebAssembly. Prior to versions 24.0.6, 36.0.6, 4.0.04, 41.0.4, and 42.0.0, Wasmtime's implementation of WASI host interfaces are susceptible to guest-controlled resource exhaustion on the host. Wasmtime did not appropriately place limits on resource…

  • CVE-2018-1000538HigJun 26, 2018
    risk 0.00cvss 7.5epss 0.02

    Minio Inc. Minio S3 server version prior to RELEASE.2018-05-16T23-35-33Z contains a Allocation of Memory Without Limits or Throttling (similar to CWE-774) vulnerability in write-to-RAM that can result in Denial of Service. This attack appear to be exploitable via Sending…