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GHSA-vx74-f528-fxqg

HighCVSS 7.5 / 10
Published Oct 10, 2023·Last modified Feb 4, 2026
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

Rapidly creating and cancelling streams (HEADERS frame immediately followed by RST_STREAM) without bound cause denial of service.

See https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44487 for details.

Patches

nghttp2 v1.57.0 mitigates this vulnerability by default.

Workarounds

If upgrading to nghttp2 v1.57.0 is not possible, implement nghttp2_on_frame_recv_callback, and check and count RST_STREAM frames. If excessive number of RST_STREAM are received, then take action, such as dropping connection silently, or call nghttp2_submit_goaway and gracefully terminate the connection.

References

The following commit mitigates this vulnerability:

  • https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/commit/72b4af6143681f528f1d237b21a9a7aee1738832
Risk Scores
Base Score
7.5

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
7.5

Exploitation activity has been observed. Apply available patches or mitigations urgently.

EPSS
100.00%

The exploit probability is critical. The vulnerability is very likely to be exploited in the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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