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CVE-2016-8740 — Apache Http Server security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.5

The mod_http2 module in the Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 through 2.4.23, when the Protocols configuration includes h2 or h2c, does not restrict request-header length, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted CONTINUATION frames in an HTTP/2 request.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.5 (3.0)
Published
2016-12-05
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-20, CWE-399

Affected products

  • apache / http_server / 2.4.17
  • apache / http_server / 2.4.18
  • apache / http_server / 2.4.19
  • apache / http_server / 2.4.20
  • apache / http_server / 2.4.21
  • apache / http_server / 2.4.22

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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