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CVE-2018-11763
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.9
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-09-25T21:29:00.283 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:36:32.157

Summary

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 to 2.4.34, by sending continuous, large SETTINGS frames a client can occupy a connection, server thread and CPU time without any connection timeout coming to effect. This affects only HTTP/2 connections. A possible mitigation is to not enable the h2 protocol.

Affected products

apache — http_server

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References

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