Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU29333
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-11996
CWE-ID:
CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
Exploit availability: Yes
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources with the application when processing HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can send specially crafted sequence of HTTP/2 requests to the affected server and trigger high CPU load for several seconds. A large number of such requests causes denial of service.
Update the affected packages.
Opensuse: 15.1
CPE2.3 External linkshttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00064.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability. However, proof of concept for this vulnerability is available.