SB2020042805 - Denial of service in Apache Traffic Server
Published: April 28, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020042805
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-9481)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to the affected software is vulnerable to a HTTP/2 slow read attack. A remote attacker can send HTTP requests in pieces slowly, one at a time to a Web server and cause a denial of service condtion on the target system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.