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The http2 dos tag covers denial-of-service attacks that exploit HTTP/2 protocol features. Recent discussions include the HTTP/2 Bomb attack, which causes memory exhaustion via HPACK and flow control mechanisms on servers like nginx, Apache, and Microsoft IIS. Another topic is CVE-2023-45288, a Go HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood affecting Azure Linux and other systems. These threads highlight how HTTP/2's performance optimizations can be weaponized for low-bandwidth, high-impact DoS attacks. The tag is relevant for IT professionals, server administrators, and security researchers dealing with HTTP/2 vulnerabilities and mitigations.
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    HTTP/2 Bomb DoS: Memory Exhaustion via HPACK and Flow Control (nginx, Apache, IIS)

    HTTP/2 Bomb is a newly disclosed remote denial-of-service attack, published in early June 2026 by Calif researchers, that can exhaust memory on default HTTP/2 deployments of nginx, Apache HTTP Server, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare’s Pingora. The uncomfortable part is not that HTTP/2 has...
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    CVE-2023-45288: Go HTTP/2 Continuation Flood and Azure Linux Attestation Limits

    The HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood tracked as CVE-2023-45288 is a serious HTTP/2 header‑parsing denial‑of‑service issue in Go’s net/http (and related golang.org/x/net/http2) that was fixed in Go releases 1.21.9 and 1.22.2 — and while Microsoft’s public advisory identifies Azure Linux as a Microsoft...
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