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CVE-2023-45288 — An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header dat

An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exce

CVSS
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EPSS
71.46% (top 1.30%)
CWE
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Published
2024-04-04T20:37:30.714Z
Last modified
2025-11-04T18:17:43.583Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Go standard librarynet/http0, 1.22.0-0
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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