- Xdos
XDoS is an acronym for XML denial-of-service.
An XDoS attack is a content-borne 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 ofdigital signatures and a naiveparser would look at each signature and use all theCPU 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.
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