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CVE-2019-9515

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a denial of service

Severity Score

7.5
*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

0
*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

-
*KEV

Decision

-
*SSVC
Descriptions

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer. Since the RFC requires that the peer reply with one acknowledgement per SETTINGS frame, an empty SETTINGS frame is almost equivalent in behavior to a ping. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.

Algunas implementaciones de HTTP / 2 son vulnerables a una inundación de configuraciones, lo que puede conducir a una denegación de servicio. El atacante envía una secuencia de marcos de CONFIGURACIÓN al par. Como el RFC requiere que el igual responda con un acuse de recibo por cuadro de CONFIGURACIÓN, un cuadro de CONFIGURACIÓN vacío es casi equivalente en comportamiento a un ping. Dependiendo de cuán eficientemente se pongan en cola estos datos, esto puede consumir un exceso de CPU, memoria o ambos.

A flaw was found in HTTP/2. Using SETTINGS frames and queuing of SETTINGS ACK frames, a flood could occur resulting in unbounded memory growth. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

*Credits: Thanks to Jonathan Looney of Netflix for reporting this vulnerability.
CVSS Scores
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Complete
* Common Vulnerability Scoring System
SSVC
  • Decision:-
Exploitation
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Automatable
-
Tech. Impact
-
* Organization's Worst-case Scenario
Timeline
  • 2019-03-01 CVE Reserved
  • 2019-08-13 CVE Published
  • 2024-08-04 CVE Updated
  • 2024-08-06 EPSS Updated
  • ---------- Exploited in Wild
  • ---------- KEV Due Date
  • ---------- First Exploit
CWE
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CAPEC
References (40)
URL Date SRC
URL Date SRC
URL Date SRC
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00031.html 2023-11-07
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00032.html 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2766 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2796 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2861 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2925 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2939 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2955 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3892 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4018 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4019 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4020 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4021 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4040 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4041 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4042 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4045 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4352 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0727 2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ZQGHE3WTYLYAYJEIDJVF2FIGQTAYPMC 2023-11-07
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMNFX5MNYRWWIMO4BTKYQCGUDMHO3AXP 2023-11-07
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4308-1 2023-11-07
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4508 2023-11-07
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4520 2023-11-07
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-9515 2024-08-26
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1735745 2024-08-26
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Apple
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Swiftnio
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>= 1.0.0 <= 1.4.0
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in Apple
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Mac Os X
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>= 10.12
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Safe
Apple
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Swiftnio
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>= 1.0.0 <= 1.4.0
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in Canonical
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Ubuntu Linux
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>= 14.04
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Synology
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Vs960hd Firmware
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in Synology
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Vs960hd
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Safe
Apache
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Traffic Server
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>= 6.0.0 <= 6.2.3
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Apache
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Traffic Server
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>= 7.0.0 <= 7.1.6
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Apache
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Traffic Server
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>= 8.0.0 <= 8.0.3
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Canonical
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Ubuntu Linux
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16.04
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lts
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Canonical
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Ubuntu Linux
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18.04
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lts
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Canonical
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Ubuntu Linux
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19.04
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Debian
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Debian Linux
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9.0
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Debian
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Debian Linux
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10.0
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Synology
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Diskstation Manager
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6.2
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Synology
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Skynas
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Fedoraproject
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Fedora
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29
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Fedoraproject
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Fedora
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30
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Opensuse
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Leap
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15.0
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Opensuse
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Leap
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15.1
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Redhat
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Jboss Core Services
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1.0
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Redhat
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Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
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7.2.0
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Redhat
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Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
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7.3.0
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Redhat
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Openshift Container Platform
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4.1
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Redhat
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Openshift Service Mesh
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Redhat
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Openstack
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14
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Redhat
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Quay
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3.0.0
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Redhat
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Single Sign-on
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7.3
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Redhat
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Software Collections
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1.0
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Redhat
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Enterprise Linux
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8.0
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Oracle
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Graalvm
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19.2.0
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Mcafee
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Web Gateway
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>= 7.7.2.0 < 7.7.2.24
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Mcafee
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Web Gateway
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>= 7.8.2.0 < 7.8.2.13
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Mcafee
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Web Gateway
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F5
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Big-ip Local Traffic Manager
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>= 11.6.1 < 11.6.5.1
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F5
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Big-ip Local Traffic Manager
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>= 12.1.0 < 12.1.5.1
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F5
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Big-ip Local Traffic Manager
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>= 13.1.0 < 13.1.3.2
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F5
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Big-ip Local Traffic Manager
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>= 14.0.0 < 14.0.1.1
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F5
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Big-ip Local Traffic Manager
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>= 14.1.0 < 14.1.2.1
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F5
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Big-ip Local Traffic Manager
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>= 15.0.0 < 15.0.1.1
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Nodejs
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Node.js
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>= 8.0.0 <= 8.8.1
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Nodejs
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Node.js
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>= 8.9.0 < 8.16.1
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Nodejs
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Node.js
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>= 10.0.0 <= 10.12.0
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Nodejs
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Node.js
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>= 10.13.0 < 10.16.3
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Nodejs
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Node.js
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