CVE-2023-39325

HTTP/2 rapid reset can cause excessive work in net/http

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 11, 2023 at 09:15 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:12 AM UTC
7 products affected across 5 vendorsFedoraGoHTTP2

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

Description

A malicious HTTP/2 client which rapidly creates requests and immediately resets them can cause excessive server resource consumption. While the total number of requests is bounded by the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting, resetting an in-progress request allows the attacker to create a new request while the existing one is still executing. With the fix applied, HTTP/2 servers now bound the number of simultaneously executing handler goroutines to the stream concurrency limit (MaxConcurrentStreams). New requests arriving when at the limit (which can only happen after the client has reset an existing, in-flight request) will be queued until a handler exits. If the request queue grows too large, the server will terminate the connection. This issue is also fixed in golang.org/x/net/http2 for users manually configuring HTTP/2. The default stream concurrency limit is 250 streams (requests) per HTTP/2 connection. This value may be adjusted using the golang.org/x/net/http2 package; see the Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting and the ConfigureServer function.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

1.20.0 ≤ v < 1.20.101.21.0 ≤ v < 1.21.3
Affected range stops below 1.20.10, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.21.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.17.0
Affected range stops below 0.17.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
All versions
v < 1.20.101.21.0-0 ≤ v < 1.21.31.21.0-0
Affected range stops below 1.20.10, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 1.21.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 0.17.0
Affected range stops below 0.17.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-770

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