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CWE-920Improper Restriction of Power Consumption

Category: other

Description

The product operates in an environment in which power is a limited resource that cannot be automatically replenished, but the product does not properly restrict the amount of power that its operation consumes.

Common consequences· 1

  • Availability — DoS: Resource Consumption (Other), DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
    The power source could be drained, causing the application - and the entire device - to cease functioning.

References

  1. https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/920.html

Related by meaning· 6

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

CWE
Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
CWE
Improper Check or Handling of Exceptional Conditions
CWE
Improper Handling of Physical or Environmental Conditions
CWE
Improper Protection against Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EM-FI)
CWE
Improperly Preserved Integrity of Hardware Configuration State During a Power Save/Restore Operation
CWE
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Sourced from MITRE CWE 4.20. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.