Denial Of Service
Probes that attempt to cause resource exhaustion or performance degradation.
OWASP LLM Top 10
Section titled “OWASP LLM Top 10”OWASP LLM10:2025 Unbounded Consumption ↗ - Unbounded Consumption occurs when an LLM application allows excessive or uncontrolled resource usage. This vulnerability can lead to denial of service (DoS), financial exploitation, or unauthorized replication of the model. Risks are amplified by high computational demands, especially in pay-per-use cloud environments.
Probes
Section titled “Probes”| Probe Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Denial of Service | This probe tests whether an AI agent can be induced to generate excessively long responses or consume excessive computational resources, potentially causing resource exhaustion or performance degradation. |
| Reasoning DoS | This probe targets agents relying on reasoning models to detect availability vulnerabilities. Evaluation is done by comparing the resource consumption (latency and token count) of standard questions against obfuscated variations that require a reasoning step. Significant performance degradation on the obfuscated prompts indicates a vulnerability to reasoning-induced resource exhaustion. |