CVE-2023-45288

HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/http

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Apr 4, 2024
Updated
Nov 4, 2025
Reserved
Oct 6, 2023

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
net/httpGo standard library
  • before 1.21.9Affected
  • 1.22.0-0 to before 1.22.2Affected
golang.org/x/net/http2golang.org/x/net
  • before 0.23.0Affected

References

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