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GHSA-VX74-F528-FXQG High

github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2 has HTTP/2 Rapid Reset

### Impact Rapidly creating and cancelling streams (HEADERS frame immediately followed by RST_STREAM) without bound cause denial of service. See https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44487 for details. ### Patches nghttp2 v1.57.0 mitigates this vulnerability by default. ### Workarounds If upgrading to nghttp2 v1.57.0 is not possible, implement `nghttp2_on_frame_recv_callback`, and check and count RST_STREAM frames. If excessive number of RST_STREAM are received, then take action, such as dropping connection silently, or call `nghttp2_submit_goaway` and gracefully terminate the connection. ### References The following commit mitigates this vulnerability: - https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/commit/72b4af6143681f528f1d237b21a9a7aee1738832

Exploit probability Not scored
Published October 10, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Go github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2

03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-vx74-f528-fxqg

### Impact Rapidly creating and cancelling streams (HEADERS frame immediately followed by RST_STREAM) without bound cause denial of service. See https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44487 for details. ### Patches nghttp2 v1.57.0 mitigates this vulnerability by default. ### Workarounds If upgrading to nghttp2 v1.57.0 is not possible, implement `nghttp2_on_frame_recv_callback`, and check and count RST_STREAM frames. If excessive number of RST_STREAM are received, then take action, such as dropping connection silently, or call `nghttp2_submit_goaway` and gracefully terminate the connection. ### References The following commit mitigates this vulnerability: - https://github.com/nghttp2/nghttp2/commit/72b4af6143681f528f1d237b21a9a7aee1738832

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05 / REFERENCES

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