Resource Allocation Without LimitsWeakness · CWE-770

CVE-2025-2813

HIGH · 7.5 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-07-31
Mitigation only
No fix yet — a mitigation exists. There is no fixed release. A documented workaround reduces exposure in the meantime.
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84/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a Denial of Service by sending a large number of requests to the http service on port 80.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · moderate confidence

An unauthenticated remote attacker can exhaust server resources by sending a large volume of HTTP requests to the service on port 80, causing a Denial of Service condition. The vulnerability likely stems from insufficient request rate limiting or lack of connection throttling on the HTTP service.

MitigationImplement rate limiting, connection throttling, and request queuing on the HTTP service or upstream network devices (WAF/load balancer) to cap the number of requests accepted from a single source within a time window.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

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  1. Identify HTTP service on port 80
    Run 'netstat -tlnp | grep :80' or 'ss -tlnp | grep :80' to list processes listening on port 80
    Affected if Any HTTP service is exposed on port 80 without proper rate limiting configured
  2. Check for rate limiting configuration
    Inspect the HTTP service configuration files (e.g., nginx.conf, httpd.conf, app config) for directives like 'limit_req_zone', 'RateLimit', or similar rate limiting rules
    Affected if No rate limiting directives are found or configured for the port 80 listener
  3. Verify connection throttling settings
    Search config files for connection limit directives such as 'max_connections', 'KeepAliveTimeout', 'MaxClients', or firewall rate limit rules (e.g., iptables -L -v -n, ufw status)
    Affected if No connection throttling or request limits are defined for incoming HTTP connections
  4. Test current request handling behavior
    Send a burst of HTTP requests (e.g., using 'curl' in a loop or 'ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://localhost/') from a test client and observe server response times and resource usage
    Affected if Server becomes unresponsive, hangs, or returns errors under moderate request load
  5. Review upstream network protection
    Check if a WAF, load balancer, or network firewall in front of the HTTP service has rate limiting enabled by reviewing its configuration or admin console
    Affected if No upstream rate limiting or throttling is configured at the network edge

Your environment is affected if an HTTP service runs on port 80 without rate limiting, connection throttling, or request queueing configured at the application or network layer.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
Mitigation available No clean upgrade yet — mitigate in the meantime
Mitigation

Implement rate limiting, connection throttling, and request queuing on the HTTP service or upstream network devices (WAF/load balancer) to cap the number of requests accepted from a single source within a time window.

Have this fixed Scoped from the published advisory
  • Consultation4.0 h
  • Implementation8.0 h
  • Testing4.0 h
  • Review / QA2.0 h
18.0 hours of engineering $3,200
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