CVE-2023-44487

7.5 HIGH CISA KEV - Actively Exploited
Published: October 10, 2023 Modified: November 07, 2025
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Description

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/6
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/7
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/4
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/9
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/4
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/8
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/19/6
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/8
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-44487
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/how-ddosers-used-the-http-2-protocol-to-deliver-attacks-of-unprecedented-size/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2023-011/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Technical Description Vendor Advisory
https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory Vendor Advisory
https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2023/10/11/rapid-reset-http-2-vulnerablilty/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2023/10/10/cve-2023-44487-http-2-rapid-reset-attack
Source: cve@mitre.org
Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://blog.vespa.ai/cve-2023-44487/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4988
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242803
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216123
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=c64c329c2c1752f46b73e3e6ce9f4329be6629f9
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Patch Vendor Advisory
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Technical Description Vendor Advisory
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-it-works-the-novel-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack
Source: cve@mitre.org
Technical Description Vendor Advisory
https://community.traefik.io/t/is-traefik-vulnerable-to-cve-2023-44487/20125
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-32-vault-consul-and-boundary-affected-by-http-2-rapid-reset-denial-of-service-vulnerability-cve-2023-44487/59715
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://edg.io/lp/blog/resets-leaks-ddos-and-the-tale-of-a-hidden-cve
Source: cve@mitre.org
Broken Link
https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-nio-http2-security-update-cve-2023-44487-http-2-dos/67764
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://gist.github.com/adulau/7c2bfb8e9cdbe4b35a5e131c66a0c088
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/3947
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/Kong/kong/discussions/11741
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qppj-fm5r-hxr3
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vx74-f528-fxqg
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mitigation Patch Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8p
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/4323
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/issues/1872
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/apache/apisix/issues/10320
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/apache/httpd-site/pull/10
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/afcdbeebbff4b0c50ea26cdd16e178c0d1f24152/modules/http2/h2_mplx.c#L1101-L1113
Source: cve@mitre.org
Product
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/tree/main/java/org/apache/coyote/http2
Source: cve@mitre.org
Product Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/10564
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/arkrwn/PoC/tree/main/CVE-2023-44487
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/bcdannyboy/CVE-2023-44487
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/5877
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.7.5
Source: cve@mitre.org
Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/277
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/e4613450ea0da7fd2fc6b61dfb2c1c1dec1ce9ec/release-notes/6.0/6.0.23/6.0.23.md?plain=1#L73
Source: cve@mitre.org
Product Release Notes
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/10679
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/30055
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/16740
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/pull/466
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63417
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/6703
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/tag/v1.59.2
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/pull/3291
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-2m7v-gc89-fjqf
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/2312
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/blob/0a864782af0a942aa2ad4ed960a6b32cd35bcf0a/mod_http2/README.md?plain=1#L239-L244
Source: cve@mitre.org
Product
https://github.com/junkurihara/rust-rpxy/issues/97
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/http2/commit/f61d41a502bd0f60eb24e1ce14edc7b6df6722a1
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/http2/issues/93
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121120
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/line/armeria/pull/5232
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/linkerd/website/pull/1695/commits/4b9c6836471bc8270ab48aae6fd2181bc73fd632
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
https://github.com/micrictor/http2-rst-stream
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/pull/6381
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/58f75f665aa81a8cbcf6ffa74820042a285c5e61
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch
https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/pull/1961
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.57.0
Source: cve@mitre.org
Release Notes
https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/issues/1615
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50121
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/openresty/openresty/issues/930
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/opensearch-project/data-prepper/issues/3474
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/oqtane/oqtane.framework/discussions/3367
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/5826
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/tempesta-tech/tempesta/issues/1986
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/3996
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/iNNxDTCjZvo
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2023-004/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://linkerd.io/2023/10/12/linkerd-cve-2023-44487/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5py8h42mxfsn8l1wy6o41xwhsjlsd87q
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00020.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00023.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00024.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00045.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00047.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00001.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00012.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2MBEPPC36UBVOZZNAXFHKLFGSLCMN5LI/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3N4NJ7FR4X4FPZUGNTQAPSTVB2HB2Y4A/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BFQD3KUEMFBHPAPBGLWQC34L4OWL5HAZ/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CLB4TW7KALB3EEQWNWCN7OUIWWVWWCG2/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E72T67UPDRXHIDLO3OROR25YAMN4GGW5/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNA62Q767CFAFHBCDKYNPBMZWB7TWYVU/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HT7T2R4MQKLIF4ODV4BDLPARWFPCJ5CZ/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JIZSEFC3YKCGABA2BZW6ZJRMDZJMB7PJ/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JMEXY22BFG5Q64HQCM5CK2Q7KDKVV4TY/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KSEGD2IWKNUO3DWY4KQGUQM5BISRWHQE/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LKYHSZQFDNR7RSA7LHVLLIAQMVYCUGBG/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LNMZJCDHGLJJLXO4OXWJMTVQRNWOC7UL/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VHUHTSXLXGXS7JYKBXTA3VINUPHTNGVU/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSRDIV77HNKUSM7SJC5BKE5JSHLHU2NK/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WE2I52RHNNU42PX6NZ2RBUHSFFJ2LVZX/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLPRQ5TWUQQXYWBJM7ECYDAIL2YVKIUH/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X6QXN4ORIVF6XBW4WWFE7VNPVC74S45Y/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XFOIBB4YFICHDM7IBOP7PWXW3FX4HLL2/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZB43REMKRQR62NJEI7I5NQ4FSXNLBKRT/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZKQSIKIAT5TJ3WSLU3RDBQ35YX4GY4V3/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLU6U2R2IC2K64NDPNMV55AUAO65MAF4/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2023OctDec/0025.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2023-October/S36Q5HBXR7CAIMPLLPRSSSYR4PCMWILK.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://martinthomson.github.io/h2-stream-limits/draft-thomson-httpbis-h2-stream-limits.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/10/microsoft-response-to-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-attacks-against-http/2/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Patch Vendor Advisory
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-44487
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mitigation Patch Vendor Advisory
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000137106
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://netty.io/news/2023/10/10/4-1-100-Final.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830987
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830998
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking Press/Media Coverage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831062
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37837043
Source: cve@mitre.org
Issue Tracking
https://openssf.org/blog/2023/10/10/http-2-rapid-reset-vulnerability-highlights-need-for-rapid-response/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://seanmonstar.com/post/730794151136935936/hyper-http2-rapid-reset-unaffected
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-http2-reset-d8Kf32vZ
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231016-0001/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240426-0007/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0007/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-44487
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-10.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_10.1.14
Source: cve@mitre.org
Release Notes
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-44487
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-http-2-rapid-reset-zero-day-attack-breaks-ddos-records/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/10/10/http2-rapid-reset-vulnerability-cve-2023-44487
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/internet-wide-zero-day-bug-fuels-largest-ever-ddos-event
Source: cve@mitre.org
Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5521
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Vendor Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5522
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Vendor Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5540
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5549
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5558
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5570
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-is-not-affected-by-the-http-2-rapid-reset-attack-cve-2023-44487
Source: cve@mitre.org
Third Party Advisory Vendor Advisory
https://www.netlify.com/blog/netlify-successfully-mitigates-cve-2023-44487/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://www.nginx.com/blog/http-2-rapid-reset-attack-impacting-f5-nginx-products/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/6
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HTTP2-Rapid-Reset-Attack
Source: cve@mitre.org
Press/Media Coverage
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/10/http2_rapid_reset_zeroday/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/4
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/9
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/4
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/8
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/19/6
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/8
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/13/6
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-44487
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/how-ddosers-used-the-http-2-protocol-to-deliver-attacks-of-unprecedented-size/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2023-011/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Technical Description Vendor Advisory
https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory Vendor Advisory
https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2023/10/11/rapid-reset-http-2-vulnerablilty/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2023/10/10/cve-2023-44487-http-2-rapid-reset-attack
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://blog.vespa.ai/cve-2023-44487/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4988
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242803
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216123
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=c64c329c2c1752f46b73e3e6ce9f4329be6629f9
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Patch Vendor Advisory
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Technical Description Vendor Advisory
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-it-works-the-novel-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Technical Description Vendor Advisory
https://community.traefik.io/t/is-traefik-vulnerable-to-cve-2023-44487/20125
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-32-vault-consul-and-boundary-affected-by-http-2-rapid-reset-denial-of-service-vulnerability-cve-2023-44487/59715
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://edg.io/lp/blog/resets-leaks-ddos-and-the-tale-of-a-hidden-cve
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Broken Link
https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-nio-http2-security-update-cve-2023-44487-http-2-dos/67764
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://gist.github.com/adulau/7c2bfb8e9cdbe4b35a5e131c66a0c088
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/3947
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/Kong/kong/discussions/11741
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qppj-fm5r-hxr3
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vx74-f528-fxqg
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mitigation Patch Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8p
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/4323
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/issues/1872
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/apache/apisix/issues/10320
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/apache/httpd-site/pull/10
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/afcdbeebbff4b0c50ea26cdd16e178c0d1f24152/modules/http2/h2_mplx.c#L1101-L1113
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Product
https://github.com/apache/tomcat/tree/main/java/org/apache/coyote/http2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Product Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/10564
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/arkrwn/PoC/tree/main/CVE-2023-44487
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/bcdannyboy/CVE-2023-44487
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/5877
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.7.5
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/277
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/e4613450ea0da7fd2fc6b61dfb2c1c1dec1ce9ec/release-notes/6.0/6.0.23/6.0.23.md?plain=1#L73
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Product Release Notes
https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/10679
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/30055
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/16740
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/pull/466
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63417
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/6703
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/pull/3291
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-2m7v-gc89-fjqf
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/2312
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/blob/0a864782af0a942aa2ad4ed960a6b32cd35bcf0a/mod_http2/README.md?plain=1#L239-L244
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Product
https://github.com/junkurihara/rust-rpxy/issues/97
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/http2/commit/f61d41a502bd0f60eb24e1ce14edc7b6df6722a1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/http2/issues/93
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121120
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/line/armeria/pull/5232
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/linkerd/website/pull/1695/commits/4b9c6836471bc8270ab48aae6fd2181bc73fd632
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://github.com/micrictor/http2-rst-stream
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/pull/6381
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/58f75f665aa81a8cbcf6ffa74820042a285c5e61
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch
https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/pull/1961
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.57.0
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Release Notes
https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/issues/1615
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50121
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/openresty/openresty/issues/930
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/opensearch-project/data-prepper/issues/3474
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/oqtane/oqtane.framework/discussions/3367
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/5826
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/tempesta-tech/tempesta/issues/1986
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/3996
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/iNNxDTCjZvo
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2023-004/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://linkerd.io/2023/10/12/linkerd-cve-2023-44487/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://lists.apache.org/thread/5py8h42mxfsn8l1wy6o41xwhsjlsd87q
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00020.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00023.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00024.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00045.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00047.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00001.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/11/msg00012.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2MBEPPC36UBVOZZNAXFHKLFGSLCMN5LI/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3N4NJ7FR4X4FPZUGNTQAPSTVB2HB2Y4A/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BFQD3KUEMFBHPAPBGLWQC34L4OWL5HAZ/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CLB4TW7KALB3EEQWNWCN7OUIWWVWWCG2/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/E72T67UPDRXHIDLO3OROR25YAMN4GGW5/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNA62Q767CFAFHBCDKYNPBMZWB7TWYVU/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HT7T2R4MQKLIF4ODV4BDLPARWFPCJ5CZ/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JIZSEFC3YKCGABA2BZW6ZJRMDZJMB7PJ/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JMEXY22BFG5Q64HQCM5CK2Q7KDKVV4TY/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KSEGD2IWKNUO3DWY4KQGUQM5BISRWHQE/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LKYHSZQFDNR7RSA7LHVLLIAQMVYCUGBG/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LNMZJCDHGLJJLXO4OXWJMTVQRNWOC7UL/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VHUHTSXLXGXS7JYKBXTA3VINUPHTNGVU/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VSRDIV77HNKUSM7SJC5BKE5JSHLHU2NK/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WE2I52RHNNU42PX6NZ2RBUHSFFJ2LVZX/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WLPRQ5TWUQQXYWBJM7ECYDAIL2YVKIUH/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X6QXN4ORIVF6XBW4WWFE7VNPVC74S45Y/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XFOIBB4YFICHDM7IBOP7PWXW3FX4HLL2/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZB43REMKRQR62NJEI7I5NQ4FSXNLBKRT/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZKQSIKIAT5TJ3WSLU3RDBQ35YX4GY4V3/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZLU6U2R2IC2K64NDPNMV55AUAO65MAF4/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2023OctDec/0025.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2023-October/S36Q5HBXR7CAIMPLLPRSSSYR4PCMWILK.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://martinthomson.github.io/h2-stream-limits/draft-thomson-httpbis-h2-stream-limits.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/10/microsoft-response-to-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-attacks-against-http/2/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Vendor Advisory
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-44487
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mitigation Patch Vendor Advisory
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000137106
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://netty.io/news/2023/10/10/4-1-100-Final.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830987
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830998
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking Press/Media Coverage
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831062
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37837043
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Issue Tracking
https://openssf.org/blog/2023/10/10/http-2-rapid-reset-vulnerability-highlights-need-for-rapid-response/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://seanmonstar.com/post/730794151136935936/hyper-http2-rapid-reset-unaffected
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231016-0001/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240426-0007/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0007/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-44487
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://tomcat.apache.org/security-10.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_10.1.14
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Release Notes
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-44487
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-http-2-rapid-reset-zero-day-attack-breaks-ddos-records/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/10/10/http2-rapid-reset-vulnerability-cve-2023-44487
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory US Government Resource
https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/internet-wide-zero-day-bug-fuels-largest-ever-ddos-event
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5521
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Vendor Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5522
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Vendor Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5540
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5549
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5558
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5570
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-is-not-affected-by-the-http-2-rapid-reset-attack-cve-2023-44487
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory Vendor Advisory
https://www.netlify.com/blog/netlify-successfully-mitigates-cve-2023-44487/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://www.nginx.com/blog/http-2-rapid-reset-attack-impacting-f5-nginx-products/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/6
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HTTP2-Rapid-Reset-Attack
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Press/Media Coverage
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/10/http2_rapid_reset_zeroday/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://www.vicarius.io/vsociety/posts/rapid-reset-cve-2023-44487-dos-in-http2-understanding-the-root-cause
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-44487
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
US Government Resource

287 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
7.5 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
94.4%
100th percentile
Exploitation Status
Actively Exploited
Remediation due: 2023-10-31

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

Affected Vendors

ietf f5 istio linkerd dena grpc projectcontour golang jenkins apache +22 more

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