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resource-bounds-dos

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Flag missing resource bounds / DoS resistance — uncapped loops or allocations, missing timeouts, reconciler-wedging input, unbounded metric cardinality (CWE-400, CWE-770).

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Skill: Resource Bounds / DoS Resistance (CWE-400, CWE-770)

  • Loops over user-supplied slices (PodSets, ResourceGroups, Flavors, cohort children, admission checks) without a documented webhook-enforced cap or explicit length check.
  • make([]T, n) / make(map[K]V, n) where n comes from user data without a sanity cap.
  • Outbound API or HTTP calls without context.WithTimeout (or a bounded inherited reconcile context).
  • Invalid .spec.interval-style fields that could wedge the reconciler for the entire kind (CVE-2022-39272 pattern). Failures from invalid CR content must surface to status, not crash-loop.
  • New metrics with unbounded label cardinality — workload_name, pod_name, namespace+name composites, annotation values as labels.