XML denial-of-service attack
"XDoS" redirects here. For other uses, see XDOS (disambiguation).
An XML denial-of-service attack (XDoS attack) is a content-borne denial-of-service attack whose purpose is to shut down a web service or system running that service. A common XDoS attack occurs when an XML message is sent with a multitude of digital signatures and a naive parser would look at each signature and use all the CPU cycles, eating up all resources. These are less common than inadvertent XDoS attacks which occur when a programming error by a trusted customer causes a handshake to go into an infinite loop.
See also
- Denial-of-service attack
- Application layer DDoS attack
- Billion laughs
- Command and control (malware)
- DDoS mitigation
- Fork bomb
- High Orbit Ion Cannon (HOIC)
- Hit-and-run DDoS
- Industrial espionage
- Infinite loop
- Intrusion detection system
- Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC)
- Network intrusion detection system
- ReDoS
- SlowDroid
- Slowloris (computer security)
- Zombie (computer science)
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