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High
CVE-2019-9518
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a flood of empty frames, potentially leading to a denial of service
Vulnerability Description
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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:
- Thanks to Piotr Sikora of Google for reporting this vulnerability.
References
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/605641/
- https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/24
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/16
- https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_33
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K46011592
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/2653c56545573b528f3f6352a29eccaf498bd6fb2a6a59568d81a61d%40%3Cannounce.trafficserver.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/091b518265bce56a16af87b77c8cfacda902a02079e866f9fdf13b61%40%3Cusers.trafficserver.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff5b0821a6985159a832ff6d1a4bd311ac07ecc7db1e2d8bab619107%40%3Cdev.trafficserver.apache.org%3E
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190823-0005/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMNFX5MNYRWWIMO4BTKYQCGUDMHO3AXP/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ZQGHE3WTYLYAYJEIDJVF2FIGQTAYPMC/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4520
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/18
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00032.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00031.html
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10296
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2925
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2939
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2955
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K46011592?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3892
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4352
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0727
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r99a625fb17032646d96cd23dec49603ff630e9318e44a686d63046bc%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd31230d01fa6aad18bdadc0720acd1747e53690bd35f73a48e7a9b75%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
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swiftnio, traffic server, ubuntu linux, debian linux, skynas, diskstation manager, vs960hd firmware, fedora, leap, jboss core services, jboss enterprise application platform, openshift service mesh, quay, software collections, enterprise linux, graalvm, web gateway, node.js
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1.0.0, 6.0.0, 7.0.0, 8.0.0, 16.04, 18.04, 19.04, 9.0, 10.0, 6.2, 29, 30, 15.0, 15.1, 1.0, 7.2.0, 7.3.0, 3.0.0, 8.0, 19.2.0, 7.7.2.0, 7.8.2.0, 8.1.0, 8.9.0, 10.0.0, 10.13.0, 12.0.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 13th, 2019
Last Modified:
August 4th, 2024
Added to House:
July 20th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H