CVE-2024-30255
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-04 19:41
Modified
2024-08-02 01:32
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
HTTP/2: CPU exhaustion due to CONTINUATION frame flood
References
security-advisories@github.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/03/16
security-advisories@github.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/05/3
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/security/advisories/GHSA-j654-3ccm-vfmm
Impacted products
envoyproxyenvoy
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