High severity · published Oct 11, 2023
CVE-2023-39325
A malicious HTTP/2 client which rapidly creates requests and immediately resets them can cause excessive server resource consumption
7.5
CVSS
3.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A malicious HTTP/2 client which rapidly creates requests and immediately resets them can cause excessive server resource consumption. While the total number of requests is bounded by the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting, resetting an in-progress request allows the attacker to create a new request while the existing one is still executing. With the fix applied, HTTP/2 servers now bound the number of simultaneously executing handler goroutines to the stream concurrency limit (MaxConcurrentStreams). New requests arriving when at the limit (which can only happen after the client has reset an existing, in-flight request) will be queued until a handler exits. If the request queue grows too large, the server will terminate the connection. This issue is also fixed in golang.org/x/net/http2 for users manually configuring HTTP/2. The default stream concurrency limit is 250 streams (requests) per HTTP/2 connection. This value may be adjusted using the golang.org/x/net/http2 package; see the Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting and the ConfigureServer function.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.8% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AT
Astra Trident · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
AT
Astra Trident Autosupport · Netapp
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
37; 38; 39 · source: NVD
GO
GO · Golang
1.20.0 before 1.20.10; 1.21.0 before 1.21.3 · source: NVD
HT
Http2 · Golang
before 0.17.0 · source: NVD