Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting mod_http2 package, versions <0:1.15.3-2.amzn2


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
59.55% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-MODHTTP2-1676038
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed13 Aug 2019

Introduced: 13 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-9511  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 mod_http2 to version 0:1.15.3-2.amzn2 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1342.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mod_http2 package and not the mod_http2 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manipulate 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 can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.

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