Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting h2o/h2o package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-H2OH2O-18016327
  • published19 Jul 2026
  • disclosed17 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 17 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-54340  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the HTTP/2 stream handling. An attacker can exhaust server resources by sending specially crafted HTTP/2 requests that exploit HPACK decompression amplification combined with stream stalling, leading to excessive retention of decoded header state.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1