CVE-2024-27316 (GCVE-0-2024-27316)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-04 19:21
Modified
2025-11-04 22:06
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache HTTP Server |
Version: 2.4.17 ≤ 2.4.58 |
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