CVE-2019-9513
HTTP/2: flood using PRIORITY frames results in excessive resource consumption
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · August 14, 2019
Updated · September 21, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in HTTP/2. An attacker, using PRIORITY frames to flood the system, could cause excessive CPU usage and starvation of other clients. The largest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Statement
This flaw has no available mitigation for packages nghttp2 and nodejs. Both packages will be updated once the available fixes are released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat Software Collections.
The nodejs RPM shipped in OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 and 3.10 is not affected by this flaw as it does not contain the vulnerable code.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
Red Hat Quay 3.0 uses Nginx 1.12 from Red Hat Software Collections. It will be updated once a fixed is released for Software Collections. In the meantime users of Quay can disable http/2 support in Nginx by following these instructions:
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Copy the Nginx configuration from the quay container to the host $ docker cp 3aadf1421ba3:/quay-registry/conf/nginx/ /mnt/quay/nginx
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Edit the Nginx configuration, removing http/2 support $ sed -i 's/http2 //g' /mnt/quay/nginx/nginx.conf
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Restart Nginx with the new configuration mounted into the container, eg: $ docker run --restart=always -p 443:8443 -p 80:8080 --sysctl net.core.somaxconn=4096 -v /mnt/quay/config:/conf/stack:Z -v /mnt/quay/storage:/datastorage -v /mnt/quay/nginx:/quay-registry/config/nginx:Z -d quay.io/redhat/quay:v3.0.3
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 7.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption