CWE-409

Base Abstraction Level
Pillar — Highest-level weakness category
Class — Abstract, language-independent
Base — Specific enough to detect
Variant — Tied to specific technology
Compound — Requires multiple weaknesses Incomplete MITRE CWE Status
Stable — Fully reviewed and complete
Draft — Under development, may change
Incomplete — Partially defined by MITRE
Deprecated — No longer recommended
Obsolete — Replaced by another CWE
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Description

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

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.

Consequences

Availability — DoS: Amplification, DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart, DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU), DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory)

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