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Home/CWEs/CWE-405
Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-405: Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)

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The product does not properly control situations in which an adversary can cause the product to consume or produce excessive resources without requiring the adversary to invest equivalent work or otherwise prove authorization, i.e., the adversary's influence is asymmetric.

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