CVE-2018-17189

CVE Details

Release Date:

2019-01-30

Description

In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data. This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections.

See more information about CVE-2018-17189 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v3.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Privileges Required:	None	User Interaction:	None
Scope:	Unchanged	Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None	Availability Impact:	Low

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 8 (httpd)	ELSA-2020-4751	2020-11-10
Oracle Linux version 8 (mod_http2)	ELSA-2020-4751	2020-11-10
Oracle Linux version 8 (mod_md)	ELSA-2020-4751	2020-11-10

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