The Batarians might be able to launch a war to destabilize the Alliance. The Volus could crash the galactic economy. The Asari could do the same, or militarize. The Salarians could launch a human-genophage equivalent. The Turians could attack. The Shadow Broker could perhaps break the Alliance's ability to organize, and selectively leak anything and everything it wanted. The Quarians could go mad and use their flotilla to wipe out the Alliance navy.
They could. But there are a lot of reasons why they also may not. Generally this is because, however much they don't like humans (or not), they don't like the alternative better: the Alliance can go down, easily, but it can take a lot of people down with it.
The Batarians were weaker than the Humans long ago, and they've been more interested in promoting and trying to defend their own interests than throwing themselves on the sword for someone else. They could launch a war and still lose.
The Salarians could engage in a war, but they'd never be The dominant species themselves either: at best they'd get their 'little of the three' status in a pre-Human council, if the Human retaliation didn't cripple them as a galactic power in the first place. They're more pragmatic and less emotional than the others anyway, and some indications suggest they're more willing to work with the Human-dominant Council than the other races: in the face of not being able to get dominant on their own, they'd be likely to work with what exists rather than pay the costs to change it themselves. (But if someone else pays the cost...)
The Asari are an economic/cultural strongman, but softpower is limited, especially when that same culture is adverse to militarization. The Destiny Ascension was their Nest Egg, and nothing's suggested (and everything supports the inverse) that they're interested in rebuilding bigger and stronger. The Asari might try a China-strategy of 'civilizing the barbarians', but those strategies generally depended on a lack of cultural identity, and may overestimate the Asari persuasiveness as a cultural-political unit. The Asari don't want to start a fight, and their ability to convince anything is dependant on the Alliance's willingness to be convinced.
Of the Council races, the Turians are the ones most prepared to engage in a fight, but at the same time may face the most resistance from the rest even after a possible victory. They might win the war, but the damage they'd take would be tremendous, and it wouldn't be strange at all to not consider political dominance not worthy half the Heirarchy devastated for hundreds more years, as a worse Krogan Rebellion. Nor would a Turian victory necessarily be greeted warmly by the rest of the galaxy: it would mostly be on its own strength by its own will, replacing one dominant species with another dominant species with an established expansionist history of subjugating other races is not necessarily better for the interests of the rest of the galaxy. There's no guarantee or even strong suggestion that the Turians want to return to a pre-human Council, in which the other two council races were raising the Humans to be counterweights in the first place.
Outside of the Council races, few other races have much reason to oppose, let alone despise, Human dominance of the Citadel enough to take action. They spent hundreds, thousands of years of good behavior getting little or nothing from the Old Council, while they are in a position to get far more out concessions of a less-stable Alliance than they were from the secure old Three who didn't need any support except from themselves. The Volus got an Alliance-held colony world in exchange for support in the immediate aftermath, and have indicators of a Volus independence movement growing and supporting stronger ties with the Alliance. The Hanar's interests haven't been compromised. The elcor neither.
Most the other races have little/no issue or desire for issue with the Alliance. The Terminus is reactionary, not expansionist, and so long as the Alliance-council doesn't cause trouble for them, the Terminus remains divided amongst itself.
The Quarians haven't even established ties with the Humans at last check, and have no bad history (and certainly nothing comparable to the Old Council's abandonment), and have/do share a common threat of the still-active Geth.
The Krogan are concerned about themselves, and either (a) are reforming to a point where they wouldn't be a threat, or (
are the type of Krogan who have far greater bones to pick with the Salarians and Turians than the humans.The Geth are either all-genocidal threats to everyone (Heretic virus), or not an immediate threat to anyone (militantly isolationist True Geth). Like the Terminus in the case of the later, if you don't bother them they won't much bother you. Better than the Terminus, they don't harbor pirates either.
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