Apache HTTP Server: HTTP/2 DoS by memory exhaustion on endless continuation frames
43Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 91%
exploitation probability
91%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.
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Affected
21 products (47 components)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Red Hat Software Collections · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 · and others 16
workaround: Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update the affected package as soon as possible.
Fixed
18 products (693 components)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.8) · Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8 · Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server · and others 13
Not affected
25 products (1,435 components) — because the vulnerable code is not present in the product
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform · .NET 6.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · and others 20
HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache HTTP ServerReferences
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Jul/18https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/05/msg00013.htmlhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FO73U3SLBYFGIW2YKXOK7RI4D6DJSZ2B/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MIUBKSCJGPJ6M2U63V6BKFDF725ODLG7/https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240415-0013/https://support.apple.com/kb/HT214119https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/421644https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/03/16http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/04/4