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CVE-2019-9512
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service
High7.5EPSS 83.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- certcc
Description
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| certccCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 83.4% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogolang.org/x/netGHSA-hgr8-6h9x-f7q9 (opens in a new tab)
References (65)
- VU#605641 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [trafficserver-dev] 20190813 Apache Traffic Server is vulnerable to various HTTP/2 attacks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [trafficserver-users] 20190813 Apache Traffic Server is vulnerable to various HTTP/2 attacks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [trafficserver-announce] 20190813 Apache Traffic Server is vulnerable to various HTTP/2 attacks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20190814 APPLE-SA-2019-08-13-5 SwiftNIO HTTP/2 1.5.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20190816 APPLE-SA-2019-08-13-5 SwiftNIO HTTP/2 1.5.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_33 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20190819 [SECURITY] [DSA 4503-1] golang-1.11 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-4503 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K98053339 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190819 [ANNOUNCE] Security release of Kubernetes v1.15.3, v1.14.6, v1.13.10 - CVE-2019-9512 and CVE-2019-9514 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190823-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190823-0004/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190823-0005/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2000 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-5a6a7bc12c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-6a2980de56 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 20190825 [SECURITY] [DSA 4508-1] h2o security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-4508 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2056 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2072 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-55d101a740 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-65db7ad6c7 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2682 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4520 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20190910 [SECURITY] [DSA 4520-1] trafficserver security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2594 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2114 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2115 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2661 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10296 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2690 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2766 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2796 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2861 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2925 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2939 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2955 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2966 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K98053339?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3131 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2769 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3245 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3265 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3892 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3906 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4045 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4041 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4269 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4273 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4352 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0406 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0727 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-4308-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201208 [SECURITY] [DLA 2485-1] golang-golang-x-net-dev security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hgr8-6h9x-f7q9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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