CVE-2024-27316 (GCVE-0-2024-27316)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-04 19:21 – Updated: 2025-11-04 22:06
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Title
Apache HTTP Server: HTTP/2 DoS by memory exhaustion on endless continuation frames
Summary
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.
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CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache HTTP Server Affected: 2.4.17 , ≤ 2.4.58 (semver)
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Credits
Bartek Nowotarski (https://nowotarski.info/)
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