Medium severity · published Aug 13, 2019
CVE-2019-9516
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service
6.5
CVSS
56.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. Some implementations allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocation alive until the session dies. This can consume excess memory.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)56.3% · higher than 99% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0; 9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux · Redhat
8.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
30; 29; 30; 32 · source: NVD
GR
Graalvm · Oracle
19.2.0 · source: NVD
JC
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.0; 15.1 · source: NVD
NG
Nginx · F5
1.9.5 before 1.16.1; 1.17.0 through 1.17.2 · source: NVD
NO
Node.js · Nodejs
8.0.0 before 8.16.1; 10.0.0 before 10.16.3; 12.0.0 before 12.8.1 · source: NVD
QU
Quay · Redhat
3.0.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
TS
Traffic Server
Apache
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