OWASP Agentic Top 10 / ASI04

ASI04: Resource Overload

Looped or recursive agent actions exhaust CPU/quota budgets.

Last reviewed June 2026

Problem

The gap ASI04 closes

Resource Overload sits in the availability surface, and OWASP Agentic Top 10 rates it medium. Looped or recursive agent actions exhaust CPU/quota budgets. For teams shipping LLM and agentic features, a control like this is only as good as the evidence that it was actually tested - an unverified control is a finding waiting for an auditor.

How Penaxtra approaches it

How Penaxtra delivers ASI04

Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target resource overload directly. Each probe runs against your live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges plus a meta-judge before it becomes a finding - so a ASI04 result is a tested verdict, not a guess. Every relevant finding is created with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI04 identifier already attached, so it lands in the audit-evidence pack mapped to the control rather than as a screenshot someone has to translate later. Where the same weakness touches another framework, the cross-framework overlap means one finding satisfies several control cells at once.

Technical capabilities

ASI04 capabilities

Probe and check coverage aligned to ASI04 (Resource Overload)

Findings tagged with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI04 control identifier

Severity context (OWASP Agentic Top 10 rates this medium)

Cross-framework overlap so one finding maps to several control cells

PDF and JSON audit-evidence export with the control id attached

Compliance mapping

ASI04 compliance mapping

Findings for ASI04 carry the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI04 identifier and cross-map to the related controls in the other five frameworks Penaxtra covers.

FAQ

Frequently asked

What is ASI04 (Resource Overload)?

Looped or recursive agent actions exhaust CPU/quota budgets. It is part of OWASP Agentic Top 10, rated medium.

How does Penaxtra test for ASI04?

Penaxtra ships adversarial probe families that target resource overload directly. Each probe runs against your live endpoint on a schedule, and every triggering response is scored by three independent judges plus a meta-judge before it becomes a finding - so a ASI04 result is a tested verdict, not a guess.

Does a finding for ASI04 help with an audit?

Yes. Each finding is tagged with the OWASP Agentic Top 10 ASI04 control identifier and exported in the PDF and JSON evidence pack, so it maps straight onto the auditor control list instead of needing manual translation.

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