CVE-2023-39325 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Standard Library NET Http
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 64.46%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 11
Latest updateDec 16
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 (MaxConcurren…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages6 packages
Also affects: Fedora 37, 38, 39