{"id":186826,"date":"2024-04-04T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/new-http-2-dos-attack-can-crash-web-servers-with-a-single-connection"},"modified":"2024-04-04T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T01:30:39","slug":"new-http-2-dos-attack-can-crash-web-servers-with-a-single-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/new-http-2-dos-attack-can-crash-web-servers-with-a-single-connection","title":{"rendered":"New HTTP\/2 DoS attack can crash web servers with a single connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-http-2-dos-attack-can-crash-web-servers-with-a-single-connection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Newly discovered HTTP\/2 protocol vulnerabilities called \u201cCONTINUATION Flood\u201d can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations.<\/p>\n<p>HTTP\/2 is an update to the HTTP protocol standardized in 2015, designed to improve web performance by introducing binary framing for efficient data transmission, multiplexing to allow multiple requests and responses over a single connection, and header compression to reduce overhead.<\/p>\n<p>The new CONTINUATION Flood vulnerabilities were <a href=\"http:\/\/nowotarski.info\/http2-continuation-flood-technical-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered by researcher Barket Nowotarski<\/a>, who says that it relates to the use of HTTP\/2 CONTINUATION frames, which are not properly limited or checked in many implementations of the protocol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly discovered HTTP\/2 protocol vulnerabilities called \u201cCONTINUATION Flood\u201d can lead to denial of service (DoS) attacks, crashing web servers with a single TCP connection in some implementations. HTTP\/2 is an update to the HTTP protocol standardized in 2015, designed to improve web performance by introducing binary framing for efficient data transmission, multiplexing to allow multiple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}