High severity · published Apr 4, 2024
CVE-2023-45288
HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/http
7.5
CVSS
92%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before closing a connection.
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)92.0% · higher than 100% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GO
golang.org/x/net/http2 · golang.org/x/net
before 0.23.0 · source: vendor
NE
net/http · Go standard library
before 1.21.9; 1.22.0-0 before 1.22.2 · source: vendor
HT
Http2 · Golang
before 0.23.0 · source: CISA
NE
Net\/http · GO Standard Library
before 1.21.9; 1.22.0-0 before 1.22.2 · source: CISA
Affected product
NE
net/http
Go standard library
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