General Information

Generic Resource Exhaustion

Variants:
Direct 

Also Known As:
XML Ping of Death - Variant

Vector Type:
Attack

Relevance:
Generic

Layer:
Application-Level

Platforms:
Any

Target Type:
Application

Affected Mechanisms:
Anti-DDoS

Invented In:
01/01/1999

Added In:
26/12/2014


Vector Operation Method:
Any application level denial of service attack that requires access to entry points that eventually consume large portions of resources from the server, such as excessive storage space, CPU or RAM.


Direct Variant:

Resource Exhaustion

Also Known As:
XML Ping of Death - Variant

Typical Severity:
Medium

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