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CVE-2018-11763

Public on 2018-09-25
Modified on 2019-01-25
Description

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 to 2.4.34, by sending continuous, large SETTINGS frames a client can occupy a connection, server thread and CPU time without any connection timeout coming to effect. This affects only HTTP/2 connections. A possible mitigation is to not enable the h2 protocol.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core httpd 2019-01-23 23:31 ALAS2-2019-1155
Amazon Linux 1 httpd24 2018-12-13 17:29 ALAS-2018-1104
Amazon Linux 2 - Core mod_http2 2018-11-07 22:11 ALAS2-2018-1104

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H