High, CVSS 7.5crates.ioAmendedPublished
Praxis affected by HTTP/2 Bomb
GHSA-cjcg-cxmh-9wcr
- Affected
- crates.io praxis-proxy < 0.5.2
- Fixed in
- 0.5.2· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities have been discovered in HTTP/2 server implementations. All have been rated with a severity impact of Important. The vulnerabilities target HPACK, the header compression scheme in HTTP/2, where a small request can trigger large memory allocations on the server. Details Credit to the original researcher, I'm mostly just run their tool against the code base. Security Bulletins: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2026-007 Exploit details: https://blog.calif.io/p/codex-discovered-a-hidden-http2-bomb This bug was fixed in upstream pingora v0.8.1, but our fork (v0.8.2) is missing this important PR to set the default h2 options. (edited) PoC Generate certificates Create praxis config as follow Start the container Check container memory In another terminal run the attack Observer the container memory Memory usage spiked to around 700MB, and even after the attack ended, the memory was not freed up. Patch the code to set…
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.5.2 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.