CVE-2019-9517CWE-400

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to unconstrained interal data buffering, potentially leading to a denial of service

High · published August 13, 2019

CVSS v3.0
7.5
EPSS
28%
Percentile
98.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to unconstrained interal data buffering, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker opens the HTTP/2 window so the peer can send without constraint; however, they leave the TCP window closed so the peer cannot actually write (many of) the bytes on the wire. The attacker then sends a stream of requests for a large response object. Depending on how the servers queue the responses, this can consume excess memory, CPU, or both.

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
0.27890 · 98.1th 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 unconstrained interal data buffering, potentially leading to a denial of service
    cvelistv5