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CWE-789 · weakness in Denial of Service

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

325 CVEs

Every dot is a CVE; the named ones are the most at risk. Red is exploited in the wild.

likely to be exploited
3

Every one of the 325 is a mark on the map. Named now: 1 to 26, most at risk first.

  1. mod_sed denial of serviceCVE-2022-30522Apache Software Foundation · 90% likely

    Apache

  2. CVE-2024-2653AMPHP · CVSS 8.2 · 80% likely
  3. Apache HTTP Server: mod_http2 denial of serviceCVE-2026-49975Apache Software Foundation · CVSS 7.5 · 33% likely

    Apache

  4. Apache ActiveMQ: Unchecked buffer length can cause excessive memory allocationCVE-2025-27533Apache Software Foundation · CVSS 6.9 · 9.1% likely

    Apache

  5. In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authe…CVE-2017-7651The Eclipse Foundation · 5.1% likely

    Eclipse Foundation

  6. A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading a tiny fileCVE-2021-31811Apache Software Foundation · 3.6% likely

    Apache

  7. A carefully crafted PDF file can trigger an OutOfMemory-Exception while loading the fileCVE-2021-27906Apache Software Foundation · 3.3% likely

    Apache

  8. Kubernetes API server denial of serviceCVE-2020-8552Kubernetes · CVSS 5.3 · 2.8% likely

    Kubernetes

  9. Undertow: outofmemoryerror due to @multipartconfig handlingCVE-2023-3223Red Hat · CVSS 7.5 · 2.7% likely

    Red Hat

  10. In version from 3.0.0 to 3.5.3 of Eclipse Vert.x, the WebSocket HTTP upgrade implementation buffers the full http request before doing the handshake, holding the entire request bo…CVE-2018-12541The Eclipse Foundation · 2.7% likely

    Eclipse Foundation

  11. AC500 V2 unauthenticated crafter packet vulnerabilityCVE-2020-24685ABB · CVSS 8.6 · 1.6% likely

    ABB

  12. In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then sending a HUP signal to server triggers the configuration to be reloaded from d…CVE-2017-7652The Eclipse Foundation · 1.6% likely

    Eclipse Foundation

  13. Sonic 3 A.I.R. Unbounded Memory Allocation DoS via ReceivedPacketCacheCVE-2026-66733Eukaryot · CVSS 7.5 · 1.6% likely
  14. Junos OS: QFX5100/QFX5110/QFX5120/QFX5200/QFX5210/EX4600/EX4650 Series: When storm control profiling is enabled and a device is under an active storm, a Heap-based Buffer Overflow…CVE-2022-22188Juniper Networks · CVSS 7.5 · 1.5% likely

    Juniper Networks

  15. Unauthenticated clients may cause OutOfMemoryError on Apache Kafka BrokersCVE-2022-34917Apache Software Foundation · CVSS 7.5 · 1.5% likely

    Apache

  16. WEKA INTEREST Security Scanner Portscan memory allocationCVE-2017-20016WEKA · CVSS 4.3 · 1.5% likely

    WEKA

  17. Denial of service in TendermintCVE-2020-5303Tendermint · CVSS 3.1 · 1.4% likely
  18. Kubernetes kubelet denial of serviceCVE-2020-8551Kubernetes · CVSS 4.3 · 1.2% likely

    Kubernetes1 bounty report

  19. Cisco Expressway Series and TelePresence Video Communication Server Denial of Service VulnerabilityCVE-2020-3596Cisco · CVSS 5.9 · 1.2% likely

    Cisco

  20. Slice Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in binaryCVE-2022-36078gagliardetto · CVSS 8.8 · 1.2% likely
  21. CODESYS Gateway server prone to denial of service attack due to excessive memory allocationCVE-2022-31804CODESYS · CVSS 7.5 · 1.2% likely

    CODESYS

  22. Windows Local Security Authority Subsystem Service (LSASS) Denial of Service VulnerabilityCVE-2026-40378Microsoft · CVSS 7.5 · 1.2% likely

    Microsoft

  23. Specific recursive query patterns may lead to an out-of-memory conditionCVE-2023-6516ISC · CVSS 7.5 · 1.1% likely

    Isc

  24. Eap-7: heap exhaustion via deserializationCVE-2023-3171Red Hat · CVSS 7.5 · 1.0% likely

    Red Hat

  25. A vulnerability in the XCP Authentication Service of the Cisco Unified Communications Manager IM & Presence Service (Unified CM IM&P) could allow an unauthenticated, remot…CVE-2023-20108Cisco · CVSS 7.5 · 0.9% likely

    Cisco

  26. NGINX ngx_http_scgi_module and ngx_http_uwsgi_module vulnerabilityCVE-2026-42946F5 · CVSS 6.5 · 0.9% likely

    F5

exploited in the wildcheck availableringed, named or not: CyberSIXT has reported on it

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Data as of 2026-11-15. CVE List through 2026-11-15 · EPSS of 2026-11-14 · CISA KEV checked 2026-11-15. Sources: the CVE List, CISA KEV, EPSS, NVD, nuclei templates and public bug bounty data.