CVE-2018-17189
mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.201 · 97 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (46)
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- http://www.apache.org/cnnvd
- http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wsscnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106685cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3932cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3933cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3935cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:4126cnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-17189cnnvd
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