Cash Overflow

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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