vulnerability

Apache HTTPD: DoS for HTTP/2 connections via slow request bodies (CVE-2018-17189)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 30, 2019
Added
Jan 30, 2019
Modified
Jul 2, 2025

Description

In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data. This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections.

Solution

apache-httpd-upgrade-latest

References

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