CVE-2019-9511

Public on 2019-08-13
Modified on 2019-10-30
Description

A flaw was found in HTTP/2. An attacker can request a large amount of data by manipulating window size and stream priority to force the server to queue the data in 1-byte chunks. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this queue can consume excess CPU, memory, or both, leading to a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2 - Core mod_http2 2019-10-28 17:43 ALAS2-2019-1342
Amazon Linux 1 nghttp2 2019-09-30 21:03 ALAS-2019-1298
Amazon Linux 2 - Core nghttp2 2019-10-08 21:43 ALAS2-2019-1298
Amazon Linux 1 nginx 2019-09-30 21:06 ALAS-2019-1299

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.8 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C