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CVE-2019-9516

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.56262
Risk score
49.69
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2019-08-13
Modified
2024-08-04
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2019-18888, GHSA-6GW7-C226-VG73
Products
n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
euvd EUVD-2019-18888

Description

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. Some implementations allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocation alive until the session dies. This can consume excess memory.

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