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CVE-2019-9511

Published: 13 August 2019

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manipulate window size and stream priority to force the server to queue the data in 1-byte chunks. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.

Notes

AuthorNote
sbeattie
nginx added http2 support in 1.9.5
nghttp2: nghttpd and nghttp are affected, libnghttp2 is not
mdeslaur
nghttp2-server is in universe
sahnaseredini
nodejs patch is a version upgrade

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
nghttp2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
focal Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
groovy Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
impish Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
jammy Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
lunar Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
mantic Not vulnerable
(1.39.2-1)
trusty Does not exist

upstream
Released (1.39.2)
xenial Needed

Binaries built from this source package are in Universe and so are supported by the community.
nginx
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (1.14.0-0ubuntu1.4)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco
Released (1.15.9-0ubuntu1.1)
eoan
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
focal
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
groovy
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
hirsute
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
impish
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
jammy
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
kinetic
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
lunar
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
mantic
Released (1.16.1-0ubuntu1)
trusty Not vulnerable
(http2 support not implemented)
upstream Needs triage

xenial
Released (1.10.3-0ubuntu0.16.04.4)
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/nginx/nginx/commit/94c5eb142e58a86f81eb1369fa6fcb96c2f23d6b
nodejs
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Ignored
(changes too intrusive)
focal Not vulnerable
(10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Not vulnerable
(12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
lunar Not vulnerable
(18.13.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2)
mantic Not vulnerable
(18.13.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2)
trusty Ignored
(changes too intrusive)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Ignored
(changes too intrusive)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H