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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS14cHc4LXJjd3YtOGY4cM4AA2X-

io.netty:netty-codec-http2 vulnerable to HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack

A client might overload the server by issue frequent RST frames. This can cause a massive amount of load on the remote system and so cause a DDOS attack.

Impact

This is a DDOS attack, any http2 server is affected and so you should update as soon as possible.

Patches

This is patched in version 4.1.100.Final.

Workarounds

A user can limit the amount of RST frames that are accepted per connection over a timeframe manually using either an own Http2FrameListener implementation or an ChannelInboundHandler implementation (depending which http2 API is used).

References

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44487
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/
• https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8p
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: 7 months ago
Updated: 6 months ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8p
References:

• https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8p
• https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/58f75f665aa81a8cbcf6ffa74820042a285c5e61
• https://github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2/security/advisories/GHSA-qppj-fm5r-hxr3
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-44487
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44487
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8p

Repository: https://github.com/netty/netty
Blast Radius: 23.7

Affected Packages