CVE-2018-16844CWE-400

nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive CPU usage

Medium · published November 7, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.3
EPSS
13%
Percentile
96.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive CPU usage. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the 'http2' option of the 'listen' directive is used in a configuration file.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.12733 · 96.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2018-11-07T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 NOV 14:00Z
    nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive CPU usage
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