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CVE-2023-44487

Published: Oct 10, 2023

Modified: May 12, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/e4613450ea0da7fd2fc6b61dfb2c1c1dec1ce9ec/release-notes/6.0/6.0.23/6.0.23.md?plain=1#L73

https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-breakdown-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack/

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2023-011/

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-it-works-the-novel-http2-rapid-reset-ddos-attack

https://www.nginx.com/blog/http-2-rapid-reset-attack-impacting-f5-nginx-products/

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/google-cloud-mitigated-largest-ddos-attack-peaking-above-398-million-rps/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831062

https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-day-rapid-reset-http2-record-breaking-ddos-attack/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HTTP2-Rapid-Reset-Attack

https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/pull/30055

https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/2312

https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/10679

https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-nio-http2-security-update-cve-2023-44487-http-2-dos/67764

https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/pull/1961

https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/58f75f665aa81a8cbcf6ffa74820042a285c5e61

https://github.com/alibaba/tengine/issues/1872

https://github.com/apache/tomcat/tree/main/java/org/apache/coyote/http2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830987

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830998

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/5877

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-http-2-rapid-reset-zero-day-attack-breaks-ddos-records/

https://github.com/bcdannyboy/CVE-2023-44487

https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go/pull/6703

https://github.com/icing/mod_h2/blob/0a864782af0a942aa2ad4ed960a6b32cd35bcf0a/mod_http2/README.md?plain=1#L239-L244

https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/releases/tag/v1.57.0

https://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2023-October/S36Q5HBXR7CAIMPLLPRSSSYR4PCMWILK.html

https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000137106

https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/10/microsoft-response-to-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-attacks-against-http/2/

https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4988

https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=c64c329c2c1752f46b73e3e6ce9f4329be6629f9

[oss-security] 20231010 Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations

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[oss-security] 20231010 CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations

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https://seanmonstar.com/post/730794151136935936/hyper-http2-rapid-reset-unaffected

https://github.com/microsoft/CBL-Mariner/pull/6381

https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/iNNxDTCjZvo

https://github.com/facebook/proxygen/pull/466

https://gist.github.com/adulau/7c2bfb8e9cdbe4b35a5e131c66a0c088

https://github.com/micrictor/http2-rst-stream

https://edg.io/lp/blog/resets-leaks-ddos-and-the-tale-of-a-hidden-cve

https://openssf.org/blog/2023/10/10/http-2-rapid-reset-vulnerability-highlights-need-for-rapid-response/

https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-2m7v-gc89-fjqf

https://github.com/h2o/h2o/pull/3291

https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/50121

https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/277

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63417

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vx74-f528-fxqg

https://github.com/apache/trafficserver/pull/10564

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-44487

https://tomcat.apache.org/security-10.html#Fixed_in_Apache_Tomcat_10.1.14

https://lists.apache.org/thread/5py8h42mxfsn8l1wy6o41xwhsjlsd87q

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/6

https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-is-not-affected-by-the-http-2-rapid-reset-attack-cve-2023-44487

https://github.com/opensearch-project/data-prepper/issues/3474

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/121120

https://github.com/oqtane/oqtane.framework/discussions/3367

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xpw8-rcwv-8f8p

https://netty.io/news/2023/10/10/4-1-100-Final.html

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/10/10/http2-rapid-reset-vulnerability-cve-2023-44487

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/10/http2_rapid_reset_zeroday/

https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research/2023/10/10/cve-2023-44487-http-2-rapid-reset-attack

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37837043

https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/http2/issues/93

https://martinthomson.github.io/h2-stream-limits/draft-thomson-httpbis-h2-stream-limits.html

https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/http2/commit/f61d41a502bd0f60eb24e1ce14edc7b6df6722a1

https://github.com/apache/httpd/blob/afcdbeebbff4b0c50ea26cdd16e178c0d1f24152/modules/http2/h2_mplx.c#L1101-L1113

vendor-advisory

vendor-advisory

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-44487

https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/issues/1615

https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache/issues/3996

https://github.com/tempesta-tech/tempesta/issues/1986

https://blog.vespa.ai/cve-2023-44487/

https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/issues/16740

https://www.darkreading.com/cloud/internet-wide-zero-day-bug-fuels-largest-ever-ddos-event

https://istio.io/latest/news/security/istio-security-2023-004/

https://github.com/junkurihara/rust-rpxy/issues/97

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1216123

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242803

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-44487

https://community.traefik.io/t/is-traefik-vulnerable-to-cve-2023-44487/20125

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qppj-fm5r-hxr3

https://github.com/apache/httpd-site/pull/10

https://github.com/projectcontour/contour/pull/5826

https://github.com/linkerd/website/pull/1695/commits/4b9c6836471bc8270ab48aae6fd2181bc73fd632

https://github.com/line/armeria/pull/5232

https://blog.litespeedtech.com/2023/10/11/rapid-reset-http-2-vulnerablilty/

https://security.paloaltonetworks.com/CVE-2023-44487

https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/4323

https://github.com/openresty/openresty/issues/930

https://github.com/apache/apisix/issues/10320

https://github.com/Azure/AKS/issues/3947

https://github.com/Kong/kong/discussions/11741

https://github.com/arkrwn/PoC/tree/main/CVE-2023-44487

https://www.netlify.com/blog/netlify-successfully-mitigates-cve-2023-44487/

https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.7.5

[debian-lts-announce] 20231013 [SECURITY] [DLA 3617-1] tomcat9 security update

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[oss-security] 20231013 Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations

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[oss-security] 20231013 Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations

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https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/how-ddosers-used-the-http-2-protocol-to-deliver-attacks-of-unprecedented-size/

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2023OctDec/0025.html

FEDORA-2023-ed2642fd58

vendor-advisory

https://linkerd.io/2023/10/12/linkerd-cve-2023-44487/

[debian-lts-announce] 20231016 [SECURITY] [DLA 3621-1] nghttp2 security update

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https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231016-0001/

[debian-lts-announce] 20231016 [SECURITY] [DLA 3617-2] tomcat9 regression update

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[oss-security] 20231018 Vulnerability in Jenkins

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[oss-security] 20231018 Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations

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[oss-security] 20231019 CVE-2023-45802: Apache HTTP Server: HTTP/2 stream memory not reclaimed right away on RST

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FEDORA-2023-54fadada12

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FEDORA-2023-5ff7bf1dd8

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[oss-security] 20231020 Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations

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FEDORA-2023-17efd3f2cd

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FEDORA-2023-d5030c983c

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FEDORA-2023-0259c3f26f

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FEDORA-2023-2a9214af5f

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FEDORA-2023-e9c04d81c1

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FEDORA-2023-f66fc0f62a

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FEDORA-2023-4d2fd884ea

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FEDORA-2023-b2c50535cb

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FEDORA-2023-fe53e13b5b

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FEDORA-2023-4bf641255e

vendor-advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20231030 [SECURITY] [DLA 3641-1] jetty9 security update

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vendor-advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20231031 [SECURITY] [DLA 3638-1] h2o security update

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https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2023-32-vault-consul-and-boundary-affected-by-http-2-rapid-reset-denial-of-service-vulnerability-cve-2023-44487/59715

FEDORA-2023-1caffb88af

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FEDORA-2023-3f70b8d406

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FEDORA-2023-7b52921cae

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FEDORA-2023-7934802344

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FEDORA-2023-dbe64661af

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FEDORA-2023-822aab0a5a

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[debian-lts-announce] 20231105 [SECURITY] [DLA 3645-1] trafficserver security update

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FEDORA-2023-c0c6a91330

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FEDORA-2023-492b7be466

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[debian-lts-announce] 20231119 [SECURITY] [DLA 3656-1] netty security update

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vendor-advisory

vendor-advisory

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240426-0007/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0007/

https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/tag/v1.59.2

https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-http2-reset-d8Kf32vZ

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