CWE-1050: Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop
The product has a loop body or loop condition that contains a control element that directly or indirectly consumes platform resources, e.g. messaging, sessions, locks, or file descriptors.
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Overview
CWE-1050 (Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop) is a base-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.
Real-world CVEs
14 recorded CVEs are caused by CWE-1050 (Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop). The highest-severity and most recent are shown first. 7 new CWE-1050 CVEs have been recorded so far in 2026 (3 in 2025).
- CVE-2025-67419
evershop allows unauthenticated attackers to exhaust application server's resources via "GET /images" API
High · CVSS 7.7 · EPSS 26th2026-01-05 - CVE-2026-81736
Remote CPU denial of service through cached SVCB/HTTPS AliasMode trees
High · CVSS 7.5 · EPSS 46th2026-09-16 - CVE-2026-4634
Keycloak: keycloak: denial of service via excessive processing of openid connect scope parameters