CVE-2018-11763 Affecting apache/httpd package, versions [2.4.17,2.4.35)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.3% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-APACHEHTTPD-3007344
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed25 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-11763  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade apache/httpd to version 2.4.35 or higher.

Overview

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.

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