TTPwire Vol. 1 · MITRE ATT&CK·Tagged

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F5 Labs

Denial of Service Vulnerabilities Discovered in HTTP/2

2019-04-29 · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

3 predictions
T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application
81%
“on a closed stream changes the state of the stream to “ open, ” and this is the point at which apache allocates a worker process from its pool during the http / 2 connection. once the stream was opened and the worker process allocated, we started slowly transmitting the request b…”
T1498Network Denial of Service
44%
“pool for each incoming request. after the request is done, the worker process is freed back to the pool. in 2009, a security researcher named robert hanson, also known as “ rsnake, ” discovered a highly effective denial of service attack. it allowed an attacker to take down a ser…”
T1499Endpoint Denial of Service
31%
“pool for each incoming request. after the request is done, the worker process is freed back to the pool. in 2009, a security researcher named robert hanson, also known as “ rsnake, ” discovered a highly effective denial of service attack. it allowed an attacker to take down a ser…”

Summary

SETTINGS frame abuse and Slow POST attacks in HTTP/2 can lead to CPU and memory exhaustion.