CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2026-54224 — UBB.threads is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)
UBB.threads is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). By sending multiple concurrent requests to view any user profile on instances with many registered users, an authenticated attacker can easily exhaust database resources and completely deny access to the application for other users. Because vendor contact attempts were unsuccessful, the vulnerability has only been confirmed in version 7.7.5 but may also affect other versions.
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.1 (4.0)
- Published
- 2026-06-18
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-405
Affected products
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Matched remediation archetype
Resource exhaustion and denial of service
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Check exposure
- Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
- Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
- Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.
Remediate safely
- Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
- Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
- Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.
Authoritative sources
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