CWE-409 Detail

CWE-409

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)
Incomplete
2006-07-19
00h00 +00:00
2025-12-11
00h00 +00:00
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Nome: Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

CWE Description

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.

General Informations

Modes Of Introduction

Architecture and Design
Implementation

Piattaforme applicabili

Linguaggio

Class: Not Language-Specific (Undetermined)

Tecnologie

Class: Not Technology-Specific (Undetermined)

Conseguenze comuni

Ambito Impatto Probabilità
AvailabilityDoS: Amplification, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)

Note: System resources, CPU and memory, can be quickly consumed. This can lead to poor system performance or system crash.

Esempi osservati

Riferimenti Descrizione

CVE-2009-1955

XML bomb in web server module

CVE-2003-1564

Parsing library allows XML bomb

Note sulla mappatura delle vulnerabilità

Giustificazione : This CWE entry is at the Base level of abstraction, which is a preferred level of abstraction for mapping to the root causes of vulnerabilities.
Commento : Carefully read both the name and description to ensure that this mapping is an appropriate fit. Do not try to 'force' a mapping to a lower-level Base/Variant simply to comply with this preferred level of abstraction.

Invio

Nome Organizzazione Data Data di rilascio Version
PLOVER 2006-07-19 +00:00 2006-07-19 +00:00 Draft 3

Modifiche

Nome Organizzazione Data Commento
Eric Dalci Cigital 2008-07-01 +00:00 updated Time_of_Introduction
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-09-08 +00:00 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2008-10-14 +00:00 updated Description
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-05-27 +00:00 updated Description, Name
CWE Content Team MITRE 2009-07-27 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2011-06-01 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2012-05-11 +00:00 updated Common_Consequences, Demonstrative_Examples, Observed_Examples, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2014-07-30 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2017-11-08 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms
CWE Content Team MITRE 2019-01-03 +00:00 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
CWE Content Team MITRE 2020-02-24 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-01-31 +00:00 updated Description
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-04-27 +00:00 updated Relationships
CWE Content Team MITRE 2023-06-29 +00:00 updated Mapping_Notes
CWE Content Team MITRE 2025-12-11 +00:00 updated Applicable_Platforms, Weakness_Ordinalities
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