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CVE-2023-45288high

HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/http

43Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 92%
exploitation probability
92%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
What the vendors declare (VEX)

Official vendor statements in CSAF/VEX format: whether their product is affected, already fixed, or ruled out — and why. These are the vendor's assertions, not Vexday's judgment.

Affected
30 products (167 components)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 · Red Hat Storage 3 · Cost Management Metrics Operator · Fence Agents Remediation Operator · and others 25
workaround: In some environments where http/2 support is not required, it may be possible to disable this feature to reduce risk.
Fixed
63 products (2,090 components)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 · CNV 4.15 for RHEL 9 · CNV 4.14 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 · and others 58
Not affected
25 products (15,866 components) — because the vulnerable code is not present in the product
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 · and others 20
An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before closing a connection.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H