CVE-2019-9516CWE-400

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service

High · published August 13, 2019

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High probability of exploitation

CVSS calls it high at 7.5. It sits in the 99.1th percentile for exploit probability.

CVSS v3.0
7.5
EPSS
56%
Percentile
99.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. Some implementations allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocation alive until the session dies. This can consume excess memory.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.56262 · 99.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2019-08-13T20:50Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 AUG 20:50Z
    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service
    cvelistv5