HTTP/2 implementations do not robustly handle abnormal traffic and resource exhaustion

Overview Multiple HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a variety of denial-of-service DoS attacks. Description The Security Considerations section of RFC7540 discusses some of the considerations needed for HTTP/2 connections as they demand more resources to operate than HTTP/1.1 connections...

h2o -- multiple HTTP/2 vulnerabilities

Jonathon Loomey of Netflix reports: HTTP/2 implementations do not robustly handle abnormal traffic and resource exhaustion Recently, a series of DoS attack vulnerabilities have been reported on a broad range of HTTP/2 stacks. Among the vulnerabilities, H2O is exposed to the following: CVE-2019-95...

CVE-2019-9515

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...

h2o -- multiple HTTP/2 vulnerabilities

Jonathon Loomey of Netflix reports: HTTP/2 implementations do not robustly handle abnormal traffic and resource exhaustion Recently, a series of DoS attack vulnerabilities have been reported on a broad range of HTTP/2 stacks. Among the vulnerabilities, H2O is exposed to the following: CVE-2019-95...