7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
0.732 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.1%
When a HTTP/2 stream was reset (RST frame) by a client, there was a time
window were the request’s memory resources were not reclaimed immediately.
Instead, de-allocation was deferred to connection close. A client could
send new requests and resets, keeping the connection busy and open and
causing the memory footprint to keep on growing. On connection close, all
resources were reclaimed, but the process might run out of memory before
that. This was found by the reporter during testing of CVE-2023-44487
(HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Exploit) with their own test client. During “normal”
HTTP/2 use, the probability to hit this bug is very low. The kept memory
would not become noticeable before the connection closes or times out.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.58, which fixes the issue.
Author | Note |
---|---|
mdeslaur | backporting this to jammy and earlier will likely require backporting the whole 2.0.10 version of the http/2 module as it refactors how connections and streams are handled: https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/9767274b884a110e9244f59f50bd31ff1cae2933 |
OS | Version | Architecture | Package | Version | Filename |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
ubuntu | 18.04 | noarch | apache2 | < any | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 20.04 | noarch | apache2 | < 2.4.41-4ubuntu3.15 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 22.04 | noarch | apache2 | < 2.4.52-1ubuntu4.7 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 23.04 | noarch | apache2 | < 2.4.55-1ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 23.10 | noarch | apache2 | < 2.4.57-2ubuntu2.1 | UNKNOWN |
ubuntu | 24.04 | noarch | apache2 | < 2.4.58-1ubuntu1 | UNKNOWN |
github.com/icing/blog/blob/main/h2-rapid-reset.md#cve-2023-45802
httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html#CVE-2023-45802
launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2023-45802
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45802
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-45802
ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6506-1
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-45802
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/19/6