CWE-400: Resource Exhaustion

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, leading to exhaustion.

705
Total CVEs
21
Critical
465
High
7.0
Avg CVSS

Yearly Trend

2026
73
2025
268
2024
171
2023
96
2022
32

Top Affected Vendors

1 Oracle 51
2 Microsoft 49
3 Apple 25
4 Fedoraproject 20
5 Google 18
6 Linux 18
7 Debian 16
8 Netapp 13
9 Apache 12
10 Juniper 11

All Resource Exhaustion CVEs (705)

About Resource Exhaustion (CWE-400)

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, leading to exhaustion.

Our database tracks 705 CVEs classified as CWE-400, with 21 rated critical and 465 rated high severity. The average CVSS score for Resource Exhaustion vulnerabilities is 7.0.

External reference: View CWE-400 on MITRE CWE →

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