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Autonomous Resource Exhaustion

🟠 HIGH resource proven AVE-2025-0038

· aka: Recursive Loop DoS, Self-Inflicted DDoS

Summary

Agent enters self-reinforcing recursive loops that consume unbounded compute, memory, or API calls. Token usage scales 49× with context window utilisation, enabling economic denial-of-service.

Blast Radius

Cloud compute bills spike 50-100×. Downstream API rate limits exhausted. Service unavailable.

Prerequisites

Agent with autonomous task decomposition and API access.

Environment

  • Frameworks: LangGraph
  • Models tested: [Available in NAIL SDK]
  • Multi-agent: No
  • Tools required: Yes
  • Memory required: No

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