FKIE_CVE-2026-54428

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-01 18:16 - Updated: 2026-07-24 20:03
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in the HTTP/2 HPACK decoder in Apache HttpComponents Core (5.4.2 and earlier, 5.5-beta1 and earlier) allows an remote attacker to cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion by sending oversized compressed header blocks before the HTTP/2 SETTINGS acknowledgement causes the configured header list size limit to be applied.
References
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread/5zjp8vczvxq19pw2rvhs21q446bhl0sdMitigation, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/01/3Mitigation, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
apache httpcomponents_core *
apache httpcomponents_core 5.5
apache httpcomponents_core 5.5
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