#VU59042 Resource exhaustion in Nomad - CVE-2021-44717

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#VU59042 Resource exhaustion in Nomad - CVE-2021-44717

Published: December 16, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU59042
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2021-44717
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Nomad
Software vendor:
HashiCorp

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can send multiple HTTP/2 requests to the server and exhaust all available memory resources.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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