CVE-2018-17189

high-risk
Published 2019-01-30

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.

Do I need to act?

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5.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 5.3/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

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Severity 21/34 · High
Exploitability 9/34 · Low
Exposure 23/34 · High