WeGIA is an open source Web Manager for Institutions with a focus on Portuguese language users. A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability exists in WeGIA. This vulnerability allows any unauthenticated user to cause the server to become unresponsive by performing aggressive spidering. The vulnerability is caused by recursive crawling of dynamically generated URLs and insufficient handling of large volumes of requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.2.16.
The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.