VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-54428

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.87%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-07-01
Last modified2026-10-25
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in the HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in Apache HttpComponents Core (5.4.2 and earlier, 5.5-beta1 and earlier) allows an remote attacker to cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion by sending oversized compressed header blocks before the HTTP/2 SETTINGS acknowledgement causes the configured header list size limit to be applied.

Weakness classification

  • security@apache.org: CWE-400

Primary references