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CVE-2023-45288

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.91969
Risk score
62.19
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2024-04-04
Modified
2025-11-04
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2024-1094, GHSA-4V7X-PQXF-CX7M
Products
Go standard library:net/http 0 <1.21.9, Go standard library:net/http 1.22.0-0 <1.22.2, golang.org/x/net:golang.org/x/net/http2 0 <0.23.0
Sources
euvd EUVD-2024-1094

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.

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