security-review-owasp-denial-of-service

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps reviewers identify ways applications can be forced into resource exhaustion, slowdowns, or outages through attacker-controlled requests, expensive processing, or brittle dependencies.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Reviews rate limiting, request sizing, timeout policy, and concurrency ceilings for exposed paths.
• Checks graceful degradation, backpressure, retries, and failover behavior under saturation.
• Useful when assessing APIs, background workers, session handling, file processing, and distributed services for denial-of-service exposure.

Quick Start

Use the security-review-owasp-denial-of-service skill to review this endpoint or workflow for resource exhaustion, missing timeouts, and weak rate controls.