Resource management error - CVE-2019-9515
Published: August 20, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20337
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-9515
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor:
Affected software:
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in HTTP/2 implementation when processing SETTINGS frames. A remote attacker can send a huge amount of SETTINGS frames to the peer and consume excessive CPU and memory on the system.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-9515
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Aug/16
- https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/605641/
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/392108390cef48af647a2e47b7fd5380e050e35ae8d1aa2030254c04@%3Cusers.trafficserver.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ad3d01e767199c1aed8033bb6b3f5bf98c011c7c536f07a5d34b3c19@%3Cannounce.trafficserver.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/bde52309316ae798186d783a5e29f4ad1527f61c9219a289d0eee0a7@%3Cdev.trafficserver.apache.org%3E
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Aug/24
- https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_33