CVE-2019-9515

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a denial of service

Description

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a settings flood, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of SETTINGS frames to the peer. Since the RFC requires that the peer reply with one acknowledgement per SETTINGS frame, an empty SETTINGS frame is almost equivalent in behavior to a ping. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.

Categories

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 3.0 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 2.69% Top 15%
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References

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https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/605641/ third party advisory us government resource
https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md third party advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bde52309316ae798186d783a5e29f4ad1527f61c9219a289d0eee0a7%40%3Cdev.trafficserver.apache.org%3E mailing list
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/392108390cef48af647a2e47b7fd5380e050e35ae8d1aa2030254c04%40%3Cusers.trafficserver.apache.org%3E mailing list
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ad3d01e767199c1aed8033bb6b3f5bf98c011c7c536f07a5d34b3c19%40%3Cannounce.trafficserver.apache.org%3E mailing list
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/24 third party advisory mailing list
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/16 third party advisory mailing list
https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_33 third party advisory
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K50233772 third party advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190823-0005/ third party advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CMNFX5MNYRWWIMO4BTKYQCGUDMHO3AXP/ vendor advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ZQGHE3WTYLYAYJEIDJVF2FIGQTAYPMC/ vendor advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/43 third party advisory mailing list
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4508 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4520 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/18 third party advisory mailing list
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00032.html mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00031.html mailing list third party advisory vendor advisory
https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10296 third party advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2766 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2796 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2861 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2925 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2939 third party advisory vendor advisory
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https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K50233772?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3892 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4018 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4019 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4021 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4020 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4045 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4042 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4040 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4041 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4352 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0727 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4308-1/ third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2019-9515?
CVE-2019-9515 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2019-9515?
To fix CVE-2019-9515, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2019-9515 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2019-9515 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~3% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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