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httpd: mod_http2: DoS via slow, unneeded request bodies

Published Jan 30, 2019

Description

In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data. This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner apache
Published Jan 30, 2019
Updated Sep 17, 2024
Reserved Sep 19, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Jan 22, 2019