CVE-2019-9518CWE-400

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a flood of empty frames, potentially leading to a denial of service

High · published August 13, 2019

CVSS v3.0
7.5
EPSS
25%
Percentile
97.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a flood of empty frames, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of frames with an empty payload and without the end-of-stream flag. These frames can be DATA, HEADERS, CONTINUATION and/or PUSH_PROMISE. The peer spends time processing each frame disproportionate to attack bandwidth. This can consume excess CPU.

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
0.25448 · 97.9th 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 flood of empty frames, potentially leading to a denial of service
    cvelistv5