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RUSTSEC-2024-0003 Moderate

Resource exhaustion vulnerability in h2 may lead to Denial of Service (DoS)

An attacker with an HTTP/2 connection to an affected endpoint can send a steady stream of invalid frames to force the generation of reset frames on the victim endpoint. By closing their recv window, the attacker could then force these resets to be queued in an unbounded fashion, resulting in Out Of Memory (OOM) and high CPU usage. This fix is corrected in [hyperium/h2#737](https://github.com/hyperium/h2/pull/737), which limits the total number of internal error resets emitted by default before the connection is closed.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published January 17, 2024
Required by Not available
Last source change February 4, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

crates.io h2
crates.io h2

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities GHSA-8r5v-vm4m-4g25

An attacker with an HTTP/2 connection to an affected endpoint can send a steady stream of invalid frames to force the generation of reset frames on the victim endpoint. By closing their recv window, the attacker could then force these resets to be queued in an unbounded fashion, resulting in Out Of Memory (OOM) and high CPU usage. This fix is corrected in [hyperium/h2#737](https://github.com/hyperium/h2/pull/737), which limits the total number of internal error resets emitted by default before the connection is closed.

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Open Source Vulnerabilities RUSTSEC-2024-0003

An attacker with an HTTP/2 connection to an affected endpoint can send a steady stream of invalid frames to force the generation of reset frames on the victim endpoint. By closing their recv window, the attacker could then force these resets to be queued in an unbounded fashion, resulting in Out Of Memory (OOM) and high CPU usage. This fix is corrected in [hyperium/h2#737](https://github.com/hyperium/h2/pull/737), which limits the total number of internal error resets emitted by default before the connection is closed.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence