CVE-2018-11763

MEDIUM

Description

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 to 2.4.34, by sending continuous, large SETTINGS frames a client can occupy a connection, server thread and CPU time without any connection timeout coming to effect. This affects only HTTP/2 connections. A possible mitigation is to not enable the h2 protocol.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105414

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041713

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0366

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0367

https://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_24.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0004/

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbux03909en_us

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3783-1/

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2018-09-25

Updated: 2019-02-19

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3.0

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.2

Severity: MEDIUM