Security Advisory

CVE-2018-11763

5.9
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

In Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 to 2.4.34, by sending continuous, large SETTINGS frames a client can occupy a connection, server thread and CPU time without any connection timeout coming to effect. This affects only HTTP/2 connections. A possible mitigation is to not enable the h2 protocol.
Published Date September 25, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory