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CWE-799Improper Control of Interaction Frequency

Category: other

Description

The product does not properly limit the number or frequency of interactions that it has with an actor, such as the number of incoming requests. This can allow the actor to perform actions more frequently than expected. The actor could be a human or an automated process such as a virus or bot. This could be used to cause a denial of service, compromise program logic (such as limiting humans to a single vote), or other consequences. For example, an authentication routine might not limit the number of times an attacker can guess a password. Or, a web site might conduct a poll but only expect humans to vote a maximum of once a day.

Common consequences· 1

  • Availability / Access Control / Other — DoS: Resource Consumption (Other), Bypass Protection Mechanism, Other

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/799.html

Compliance frameworks addressing this (incoming)2

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
ComplianceControlowasp_api_top10-api04100%live
ComplianceControlowasp_llm_top10-llm09100%live

(incoming)9

TypeTargetConfidenceTier
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-12547cve-2025-125470%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-3555cve-2025-35550%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-3556cve-2025-35560%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-54321cve-2025-543210%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2025-9004cve-2025-90040%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-2110cve-2026-21100%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-24017cve-2026-240170%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-32729cve-2026-327290%live
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-7402cve-2026-74020%live

Related by meaning· 6

Nearest entities by semantic similarity across the cs-graph corpus.

CWE
Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
CWE
Improper Access Control
CWE
Improper Enforcement of a Single, Unique Action
CWE
Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification)
CWE
Excessive Iteration
CWE
Insufficient Resource Pool
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.