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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-31309

High
7.5/10

Summary

HTTP/2 CONTINUATION DoS attack can cause Apache Traffic Server to consume more resources on the server. Versions 5.1.0-rc0 through 8.1.9, and 9.0.0-rc0 through 9.2.3 are affected. Users can set a new setting ("proxy.config.http2.max_continuation_frames_per_minute") to limit the number of CONTINUATION frames per minute. ATS does have a fixed amount of memory a request can use and ATS adheres to these limits in previous releases.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published