003 – Symmetric denial of service
Description
The server is rendered unresponsive by successively repeating a request which consumes a lot of resources or takes too long to be processed.
Impact
Deny temporary or permanently the access to one or several application services.
Recommendation
Define a time-out when a query or a search is taking a lot of time processing the information
Threat
Anonymous attacker from the Internet.
Expected Remediation Time
Score 4.0
Default score using CVSS 4.0. It may change depending on the context of the src.
Base 4.0
- Attack vector: N
- Attack complexity: L
- Attack Requirements: N
- Privileges required: N
- User interaction: N
- Confidentiality (VC): N
- Integrity (VI): N
- Availability (VA): H
- Confidentiality (SC): N
- Integrity (SI): N
- Availability (SA): N
Threat 4.0
- Exploit maturity: U