CVE-2019-9514

CVSS 3.1 Score 7.5 of 10 (high)

Details

Published Aug 13, 2019
Updated: Jan 14, 2025
CWE ID 400
CWE ID 770

Summary

CVE-2019-9514 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting certain HTTP/2 implementations. An attacker can exploit this flaw by opening multiple streams and sending invalid requests, resulting in a flood of RST_STREAM frames. Depending on how the target handles these frames, it could experience excessive memory or CPU usage, leading to a denial of service. HTTP/2 servers that do not properly manage RST_STREAM frames are susceptible to this attack.

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Affected Products

  • F5 LTM
  • Nodejs Node.js
  • McAfee Web Gateway
  • Apache Traffic Server
  • Debian

Affected Vendors

  • Debian
  • Red Hat
  • Fedora Project
  • F5
  • Apache Software Foundation