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CVE-2022-41717 — An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 re

An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the s

CVSS
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EPSS
0.33% (top 44.30%)
CWE
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Published
2022-12-08T19:03:53.161Z
Last modified
2025-02-13T16:33:08.284Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to allocate approximately 64 MiB per open connection.

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Go standard librarynet/http0, 1.19.0-0
golang.orgx/net / golang.org/x/net/http20

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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