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CVE-2023-44487 High

Confirmed as exploited

CVE-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

Exploit probability 100.0%
Published July 17, 2025
Required by October 31, 2023
Last source change May 20, 2026

01 / ACTION

Required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Bitnami envoy
Go golang.org/x/net
Maven com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core

1 explicit affected versions

Maven com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11

58 explicit affected versions

Bitnami node
Bitnami dotnet
Bitnami nginx
Bitnami contour
Bitnami nginx-gateway
Bitnami aspnet-core
Bitnami golang
Bitnami dotnet-sdk
Bitnami kong
Bitnami nginx-ingress-controller
Bitnami apisix
Bitnami node-min
Bitnami jenkins
Maven com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12

59 explicit affected versions

Maven com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13

31 explicit affected versions

Maven org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core

199 explicit affected versions

Maven org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-coyote

199 explicit affected versions

Maven org.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-common

152 explicit affected versions

Bitnami solr
Bitnami tomcat
Maven org.eclipse.jetty.http2:http2-server

152 explicit affected versions

Maven org.eclipse.jetty.http2:jetty-http2-common

2 explicit affected versions

Maven org.eclipse.jetty.http2:jetty-http2-server

2 explicit affected versions

SwiftURL github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2
Bitnami varnish
Chainguard cluster-autoscaler-1.26
Chainguard cluster-autoscaler-1.26-compat
Wolfi cluster-autoscaler-1.26
Wolfi cluster-autoscaler-1.26-compat
Chainguard keda-2.8
Chainguard k3d
Chainguard keda-2.9
Chainguard cluster-autoscaler-1.27
Chainguard cluster-autoscaler-1.27-compat
Wolfi cluster-autoscaler-1.27
Wolfi cluster-autoscaler-1.27-compat
Chainguard cluster-autoscaler-1.28
Chainguard cluster-autoscaler-1.28-compat
Wolfi cluster-autoscaler-1.28
Wolfi cluster-autoscaler-1.28-compat
Unknown Unknown

3017 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

related GHSA-2M7V-GC89-FJQF

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Known Exploited Vulnerabilities CVE-2023-44487

HTTP/2 contains a rapid reset vulnerability that allows for a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS).

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-apisix-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-aspnet-core-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-contour-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-tomcat-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-solr-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-varnish-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-node-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-qppj-fm5r-hxr3

## HTTP/2 Rapid reset attack The HTTP/2 protocol allows clients to indicate to the server that a previous stream should be canceled by sending a RST_STREAM frame. The protocol does not require the client and server to coordinate the cancellation in any way, the client may do it unilaterally. The client may also assume that the cancellation will take effect immediately when the server receives the RST_STREAM frame, before any other data from that TCP connection is processed. Abuse of this feature is called a Rapid Reset attack because it relies on the ability for an endpoint to send a RST_STREAM frame immediately after sending a request frame, which makes the other endpoint start working and then rapidly resets the request. The request is canceled, but leaves the HTTP/2 connection open. The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack built on this capability is simple: The client opens a large number of streams at once as in the standard HTTP/2 attack, but rather than waiting for a response to each request stream from the server or proxy, the client cancels each request immediately. The ability to reset streams immediately allows each connection to have an indefinite number of requests in flight. By explicitly canceling the requests, the attacker never exceeds the limit on the number of concurrent open streams. The number of in-flight requests is no longer dependent on the round-trip time (RTT), but only on the available network bandwidth. In a typical HTTP/2 server implementation, the server will still have to do significant amounts of work for canceled requests, such as allocating new stream data structures, parsing the query and doing header decompression, and mapping the URL to a resource. For reverse proxy implementations, the request may be proxied to the backend server before the RST_STREAM frame is processed. The client on the other hand paid almost no costs for sending the requests. This creates an exploitable cost asymmetry between the server and the client. Multiple software artifacts implementing HTTP/2 are affected. This advisory was originally ingested from the `swift-nio-http2` repo advisory and their original conent follows. ## swift-nio-http2 specific advisory swift-nio-http2 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability in which a malicious client can create and then reset a large number of HTTP/2 streams in a short period of time. This causes swift-nio-http2 to commit to a large amount of expensive work which it then throws away, including creating entirely new `Channel`s to serve the traffic. This can easily overwhelm an `EventLoop` and prevent it from making forward progress. swift-nio-http2 1.28 contains a remediation for this issue that applies reset counter using a sliding window. This constrains the number of stream resets that may occur in a given window of time. Clients violating this limit will have their connections torn down. This allows clients to continue to cancel streams for legitimate reasons, while constraining malicious actors.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-golang-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-kong-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-node-min-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-nginx-gateway-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-dotnet-sdk-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-dotnet-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-envoy-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-jenkins-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-nginx-ingress-controller-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities BIT-nginx-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2023-44487

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence