AZL-38950
An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before closing a connection.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Linux:3 | influxdb | 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- PoC for CVE-2023-45288, continuation flood vulnerability (github-poc-repo)
- PoC for CVE-2023-45288, continuation flood vulnerability (github-poc)
- index.html (github-poc)
- .trivyignore.yml (github-poc)
Timeline
- Apr 4, 2024 CVE Published
- Apr 21, 2026 CVE Updated