Description
The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 7.5/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
| ietf | http | 2.0 |
| Siemens | RUGGEDCOM APE1808 | < * |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP | >= V3.1.5, < * |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP | >= V3.1.5, < * |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP | >= V3.1.5, < * |
| Siemens | SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP | >= V3.1.5, < * |
| Siemens | SINEC NMS | < V3.0 |
| Siemens | SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP | >= V3.1.5, < * |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/9Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/19/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/8Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-44487Vendor Advisory
- https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/how-ddosers-used-the-http-2-protocol-to-deliver-attacks-of-unprecedented-size/Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory
- https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2023-011/Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/Technical Description, Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/Third Party Advisory, Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2023/10/11/rapid-reset-http-2-vulnerablilty/Vendor Advisory
- https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2023/10/10/cve-2023-44487-http-2-rapid-reset-attackPress/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.vespa.ai/cve-2023-44487/Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4988Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242803Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216123Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=c64c329c2c1752f46b73e3e6ce9f4329be6629f9Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/Technical Description, Vendor Advisory
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-it-works-the-novel-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attackTechnical Description, Vendor Advisory
- https://community.traefik.io/t/is-traefik-vulnerable-to-cve-2023-44487/20125Vendor Advisory
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-32-vault-consul-and-boundary-affected-by-http-2-rapid-reset-denial-of-service-vulnerability-cve-2023-44487/59715Third Party Advisory
- https://edg.io/lp/blog/resets-leaks-ddos-and-the-tale-of-a-hidden-cveBroken Link
- https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-nio-http2-security-update-cve-2023-44487-http-2-dos/67764Vendor Advisory
- https://gist.github.com/adulau/7c2bfb8e9cdbe4b35a5e131c66a0c088Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/3947Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/Kong/kong/discussions/11741Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qppj-fm5r-hxr3Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vx74-f528-fxqgMitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8pPatch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/4323Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/issues/1872Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/apache/apisix/issues/10320Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/apache/httpd-site/pull/10Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/afcdbeebbff4b0c50ea26cdd16e178c0d1f24152/modules/http2/h2_mplx.c#L1101-L1113Product
- https://github.com/apache/tomcat/tree/main/java/org/apache/coyote/http2Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/10564Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/arkrwn/PoC/tree/main/CVE-2023-44487Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/bcdannyboy/CVE-2023-44487Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/5877Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.7.5Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/277Issue Tracking, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/e4613450ea0da7fd2fc6b61dfb2c1c1dec1ce9ec/release-notes/6.0/6.0.23/6.0.23.md?plain=1#L73Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/10679Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/30055Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/16740Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/pull/466Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63417Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/6703Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/tag/v1.59.2Mailing List
- https://github.com/h2o/h2o/pull/3291Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-2m7v-gc89-fjqfVendor Advisory
- https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/2312Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/blob/0a864782af0a942aa2ad4ed960a6b32cd35bcf0a/mod_http2/README.md?plain=1#L239-L244Product
- https://github.com/junkurihara/rust-rpxy/issues/97Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/http2/commit/f61d41a502bd0f60eb24e1ce14edc7b6df6722a1Patch
- https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/http2/issues/93Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121120Issue Tracking, Patch
Timeline
- Published
- Oct 10, 2023
- Last modified
- Aug 11, 2026
- Added to CISA KEV
- Oct 10, 2023
- NVD status
- Analyzed