VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-17189

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability20.07%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-01-30
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data. This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references