Application misuse is a category of cyber or security attacks which envelopes the concept of availability-based outages at Layers 5-7 on the OSI model of internetworking. The idea here is to misuse a standard, RFC, business logic or known application vulnerabilities to establish lethargic or unavailable application-layer resources.
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