Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting zae-limiter package, versions [,0.10.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ZAELIMITER-15367519
  • published2 Mar 2026
  • disclosed25 Feb 2026
  • creditPatrick Sodré

Introduced: 25 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-27695  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zae-limiter to version 0.10.1 or higher.

Overview

zae-limiter is a Rate limiting library backed by DynamoDB with token bucket algorithm

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the acquire function. An attacker can cause elevated latency and rejected requests for high-traffic entities, and potentially impact other entities sharing the same DynamoDB partition, by sending sustained high-rate traffic to a single entity.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1