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Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service

Published Aug 13, 2019

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

There are no mitigations available for nghttp2 and nodejs. Both packages will be updated once the available fixes are released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Software Collections. The nodejs RPM shipped in OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 and 3.10 is not affected by this flaw as it does not contain the vulnerable code.

Red Hat mitigation

Red Hat Quay 3.0 uses Nginx 1.12 from Red Hat Software Collections. It will be updated once a fixed is released for Software Collections. In the meantime users of Quay can disable http/2 support in Nginx by following these instructions: 1. Copy the Nginx configuration from the quay container to the host $ docker cp 3aadf1421ba3:/quay-registry/conf/nginx/ /mnt/quay/nginx 2. Edit the Nginx configuration, removing http/2 support $ sed -i 's/http2 //g' /mnt/quay/nginx/nginx.conf 3. Restart Nginx with the new configuration mounted into the container, eg: $ docker run --restart=always -p 443:8443 -p 80:8080 --sysctl net.core.somaxconn=4096 -v /mnt/quay/config:/conf/stack:Z -v /mnt/quay/storage:/datastorage -v /mnt/quay/nginx:/quay-registry/config/nginx:Z -d quay.io/redhat/quay:v3.0.3

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Weaknesses (2)

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner certcc
Published Aug 13, 2019
Updated Aug 4, 2024
Reserved Mar 1, 2019
Link CVE-2019-9511
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2019-9511
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Aug 13, 2019
Links CVE-2019-9511 - Bugzilla