T14-AT-009HIGH

Resource Starvation

T14 · Infrastructure & Economic Warfare →
Risk score230
RatingHigh
Procedures10
Severity
Mechanism

AI compute resources are shared and finite — cloud GPU instances are oversubscribed, API quotas serve multiple consumers, and training clusters have fixed capacity. Resource starvation exploits multi-tenant resource sharing by monopolizing shared resources to deny access to legitimate users. Unlike DoS (T14-AT-002) which overwhelms a service with requests, resource starvation targets the *supply side* — consuming GPUs, quotas, bandwidth, or storage before legitimate users can access them.

Mitigation
Fair-share resource schedulingHIGH
API quota management with burst limitsHIGH
Resource reservation systemsMEDIUM
Multi-provider redundancyHIGH
Chaining

Resource starvation chains from T14-AT-001 (GPU Farm Hijacking) when hijacked resources reduce availability for legitimate users. Chains into T14-AT-006 (Competitive Sabotage) when resource starvation is targeted at specific competitors.

Framework mapping
OWASP LLMLLM04
MITRE ATLASAML.T0029
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