Cash Overflow

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Last revision (mm/dd/yy): 12/30/2013

Description

A Cash Overflow attack is a Denial of Service attack specifically aimed at exceeding the hosting costs for a cloud application, either essentially bankrupting the service owner or exceeding the application cost limits, leading the cloud service provider to disable the application.

Risk Factors

• Given enough resources, fairly easy to launch attack
• Quickly detected due to immediate downtime/resources consumption/logging
• Impact usually limited to loss of availability

Related Threat Agents

• Most likely an Category:Internet_attacker

Related Attacks

• Denial of Service

Related Vulnerabilities

• Category: Input Validation Vulnerability
• Category: API Abuse

Related Controls

• DoS Prevention Techniques

References

• http://capec.mitre.org/data/index.html - Denial of Service through Resource Depletion