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CVE-2023-39325

A malicious HTTP/2 client which rapidly creates requests and immediately resets them can cause excessive server resource

A malicious HTTP/2 client which rapidly creates requests and immediately resets them can cause excessive server resource consumption. While the total number of requests is bounded by the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting, resetting an in-progress request allows the attacker to create a new request while the existing one is still executing. With the fix applied, HTTP/2 servers now bound the number of simultaneously executing handler goroutines to the stream concurrency limit (MaxConcurrentStreams). New requests arriving when at the limit (which can only happen after the client has reset an existing, in-flight request) will be queued until a handler exits. If the request queue grows too large, the server will terminate the connection. This issue is also fixed in golang.org/x/net/http2 for users manually configuring HTTP/2. The default stream concurrency limit is 250 streams (requests) per HTTP/2 connection. This value may be adjusted using the golang.org/x/net/http2 package.

see the Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting and the ConfigureServer function.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.0015
Schedule remediation
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Weakness Classification

Affected Products & Versions

6
golang go>= 1.20.0 and < 1.20.10
golang go>= 1.21.0 and < 1.21.3
golang http2< 0.17.0

Affected Packages

2
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Go golang.org/x/net HIGH fixed in 0.17.0
Go stdlib fixed in 1.20.10, 1.21.3

Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · security@golang.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD11 Oct 2023 · 10:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vendor Advisories

30
rhsaRHSA-2026:8322Important
rhsaRHSA-2026:0722Moderate
rhsaRHSA-2025:23528Important
rhsaRHSA-2025:23529Important
rhsaRHSA-2025:16668Important
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References & Sources

43
Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://go.dev/issue/63417Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
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