CVE-2024-27316

HIGH7.5EPSS 87.6%

Apache HTTP Server: HTTP/2 DoS by memory exhaustion on endless continuation frames

Published: 4/4/2024Modified: 4/28/2026

Description

HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion.

Affected packages (3)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (15)