# CVE-2019-9511: Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2019-08-13 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/605641/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4099-1/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TAZZEVTCN2B4WT6AIBJ7XGYJMBTORJU5/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/40
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LZLUYPYY3RX4ZJDWZRJIKSULYRJ4PXW7/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4505
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JUBYAF6ED3O4XCHQ5C2HYENJLXYXZC4M/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BP556LEG3WENHZI5TAQ6ZEBFTJB4E2IS/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XHTKU7YQ5EEP2XNSAV4M4VJ7QCBOJMOD/
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/1
- https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4511
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/POPAEC4FWL4UU4LDEGPY5NPALU24FFQD/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2692
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00035.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00032.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00031.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2745
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2746
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2775
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2799
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2925
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2939
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2949
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00005.html
- https://github.com/flyniu666/ingress-nginx-0.21-1.19.5
- https://github.com/harley-ghostie/CVE-2019-9511_Priority-Churn-Data-Dribble

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