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GHSA-qppj-fm5r-hxr3: swift-nio-http2 vulnerable to HTTP/2 Stream Cancellation Attack
swift-nio-http2 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability in which a malicious client can create and then reset a large number of HTTP/2 streams in a short period of time. This causes swift-nio-http2 to commit to a large amount of expensive work which it then throws away, including creating entirely new Channels to serve the traffic. This can easily overwhelm an EventLoop and prevent it from making forward progress.
swift-nio-http2 1.28 contains a remediation for this issue that applies reset counter using a sliding window. This constrains the number of stream resets that may occur in a given window of time. Clients violating this limit will have their connections torn down. This allows clients to continue to cancel streams for legitimate reasons, while constraining malicious actors.
swift-nio-http2 vulnerable to HTTP/2 Stream Cancellation Attack
Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 10, 2023 in apple/swift-nio-http2 • Updated Oct 10, 2023
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