ubuntu-cve-2018-17189
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2019-01-30 00:00
Modified
2026-04-22 07:38
Summary
Details

In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data. This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "apache2",
            "binary_version": "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.6"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apache2-bin",
            "binary_version": "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.6"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apache2-data",
            "binary_version": "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.6"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apache2-suexec-custom",
            "binary_version": "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.6"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apache2-suexec-pristine",
            "binary_version": "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.6"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "apache2-utils",
            "binary_version": "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.6"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "apache2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/apache2@2.4.29-1ubuntu4.6?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.6"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.4.27-2ubuntu3",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu1",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu2",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu3",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu4",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.1",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.2",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.3",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.4",
        "2.4.29-1ubuntu4.5"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data. This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2018-17189",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:38:44Z",
  "published": "2019-01-30T00:00:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-17189"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/01/22/2"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3937-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17189"
    }
  ],
  "related": [
    "USN-3937-1"
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "low",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2018-17189"
  ]
}



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