CVE-2019-9512
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 83.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to ping floods, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends continual pings to an HTTP/2 peer, causing the peer to build an internal queue of responses. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 5 years later
· 5 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| certccCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 83.4% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogolang.org/x/netGHSA-hgr8-6h9x-f7q9 (opens in a new tab)
References
References65
- VU#605641 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- https://github.com/Netflix/security-bulletins/blob/master/advisories/third-party/2019-002.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [trafficserver-dev] 20190813 Apache Traffic Server is vulnerable to various HTTP/2 attacks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [trafficserver-users] 20190813 Apache Traffic Server is vulnerable to various HTTP/2 attacks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [trafficserver-announce] 20190813 Apache Traffic Server is vulnerable to various HTTP/2 attacks (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20190814 APPLE-SA-2019-08-13-5 SwiftNIO HTTP/2 1.5.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20190816 APPLE-SA-2019-08-13-5 SwiftNIO HTTP/2 1.5.0 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- https://www.synology.com/security/advisory/Synology_SA_19_33 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20190819 [SECURITY] [DSA 4503-1] golang-1.11 security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-4503 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K98053339 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20190819 [ANNOUNCE] Security release of Kubernetes v1.15.3, v1.14.6, v1.13.10 - CVE-2019-9512 and CVE-2019-9514 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190823-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190823-0004/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190823-0005/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2000 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-5a6a7bc12c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-6a2980de56 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 20190825 [SECURITY] [DSA 4508-1] h2o security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- DSA-4508 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2056 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2072 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-55d101a740 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2019-65db7ad6c7 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2682 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4520 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2726 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20190910 [SECURITY] [DSA 4520-1] trafficserver security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2594 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2114 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2115 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2661 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10296 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2690 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2766 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2019:2130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2796 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2861 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2925 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2939 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2955 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2966 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K98053339?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3131 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2769 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3245 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3265 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3892 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:3906 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4045 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4040 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4041 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4269 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4273 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:4352 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0406 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2020:0727 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- USN-4308-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20201208 [SECURITY] [DLA 2485-1] golang-golang-x-net-dev security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-4147 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hgr8-6h9x-f7q9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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