apache traffic-server CVE-2019-9518 vulnerability in Apache and Other Products
Published on August 13, 2019

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

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Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a flood of empty frames, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of frames with an empty payload and without the end-of-stream flag. These frames can be DATA, HEADERS, CONTINUATION and/or PUSH_PROMISE. The peer spends time processing each frame disproportionate to attack bandwidth. This can consume excess CPU.

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Weakness Type

What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?

The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

CVE-2019-9518 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.


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Exploit Probability

EPSS
4.70%
Percentile
89.22%

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