The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023.
CVE-2023-44487
Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2023-10-10), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
- 5,731 internet-facing services (distinct ip:port) on record running an affected version — derived from Shodan data (© Shodan); a patched service can stay counted while its port stays open
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
A fix is available — apply it.
5,731 internet-facing services (distinct ip:port) on record running a version that maps to CVE-2023-44487, in our KEV-Exposure radar’s Shodan-derived sample.
How it counts: every 12 hours, when Shodan query credits allow, the radar runs one Shodan query per tracked product, reads up to 100 ip:port services per query, and keeps a service when its banner version matches a CISA-KEV or high-EPSS CVE; a service is dropped when neither a search nor a Shodan InternetDB port re-check has refreshed it for 21 days. A re-check that finds the port still listed by Shodan InternetDB refreshes the service without re-reading the banner, so a patched service can stay counted while its port stays open. A count is a banner-version inference over a sample, not an exploit test and not an internet-wide census, and the unit is a service, not a machine: a machine answering on two ports counts twice.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 96EG Risk 96/100CISA SSVC
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity90% × 45%Exploitation100% × 40%Automatability100% × 15%CISA SSVC: Attend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and as soon as possible at high. - EPSS PROB
- 100%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
CISA SSVCAttend at low or medium mission impact; Act at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and as soon as possible at high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table
Published
October 10, 2023
Last Modified
August 11, 2026
Advisory Details (10)
Auto-updated May 20, 2026Biggest DDoSes of all time generated by protocol 0-day in HTTP/2 - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/how-ddosers-used-the-http-2-protocol-to-deliver-attacks-of-unprecedented-size/oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/20/8oss-security - CVE-2023-45802: Apache HTTP Server: HTTP/2 stream memory not reclaimed right away on RST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/19/6oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/8oss-security - Vulnerability in Jenkins
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/18/4oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/9oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/13/4oss-security - Re: CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/7oss-security - CVE-2023-44487: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset attack against many implementations
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/10/10/6Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-44487(20)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:0722Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: multicluster engine for Kubernetes v2.8.4 security update
- RHSA-2025:23529Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11.9 security update
- RHSA-2025:23528Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6 security update
- RHSA-2025:16668Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.12 on RHEL 7 security update
- RHSA-2025:7497Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: tomcat security update
- RHSA-2024:4631Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.15.0 release
- RHSA-2024:4118Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ceph Storage 5.3 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2024:4119Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Updated rhceph-5.3 container image and security update
- +12 more
Patch Availability(30)
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(50 across 18 ecosystems)
Debian:12(8)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| dnsdist | 1.7.3-2 ... 2.1.2-1 (37 versions) |
| — |
| grpc | 1.51.1-3 ... 1.83.0-1 (12 versions) |
| — |
| h2o | 2.2.5+dfsg2-10 ... 2.2.5+dfsg2-9 (7 versions) |
| — |
| haproxy | — |
| — |
| jetty9 | 9.4.50-4, 9.4.50-4+deb12u1 |
| — |
| netty | 1:4.1.48-7 |
| — |
| nghttp2 | 1.52.0-1 |
| — |
| nginx | 1.22.1-9 ... 1.30.4-6 (53 versions) |
| — |
Debian:11(7)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| dnsdist | 1.5.1-3 ... 2.1.1-1 (45 versions) |
| — |
| grpc | 1.30.2-3 ... 1.82.0-1 (22 versions) |
| — |
| h2o | 2.2.5+dfsg2-10 ... 2.2.5+dfsg2-9 (10 versions) |
| — |
| haproxy | — |
| — |
| jetty9 | 9.4.39-3 ... 9.4.50-4 (17 versions) |
| — |
| netty | 1:4.1.48-4, 1:4.1.48-4+deb11u1 |
| — |
| nghttp2 | 1.43.0-1 |
| — |
Debian:13(6)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| dnsdist | — |
| — |
| grpc | 1.51.1-6 ... 1.83.0-1 (7 versions) |
| — |
| haproxy | — |
| — |
| jetty9 | — |
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| netty | — |
| — |
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Debian:14(6)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| dnsdist | — |
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| grpc | 1.51.1-6 ... 1.83.0-1 (7 versions) |
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| haproxy | — |
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| jetty9 | — |
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| netty | — |
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| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Debian:10(4)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| h2o | 2.2.5+dfsg2-2, 2.2.5+dfsg2-2+deb10u1 |
| — |
| jetty9 | 9.4.15-1 ... 9.4.50-4 (40 versions) |
| — |
| netty | 1:4.1.33-1, 1:4.1.33-1+deb10u1, 1:4.1.33-1+deb10u2, 1:4.1.33-1+deb10u3 |
| — |
| nghttp2 | 1.36.0-2, 1.36.0-2+deb10u1 |
| — |
Maven(4)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core | 3.0.0-RC1 |
| — |
| com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.11 | 10.0.0 ... 3.0.0-RC1 (58 versions) |
| — |
| com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.12 | 10.0.0 ... 10.5.2 (59 versions) |
| — |
| com.typesafe.akka:akka-http-core_2.13 | 10.1.10 ... 10.5.2 (31 versions) |
| — |
Alpine:v3.15(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| lighttpd | — |
| — |
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.16(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| lighttpd | — |
| — |
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.17(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| lighttpd | — |
| — |
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.18(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.19(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| nghttp2 | — |
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Alpine:v3.20(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.21(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.22(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.23(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Alpine:v3.24(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| nghttp2 | — |
| — |
Go(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| golang.org/x/net | — |
| — |
Swift(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/apple/swift-nio-http2 | — | 1.28.0 (one range) | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(20)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2023-444872023-10-10
MITRE: CVE-2023-44487 HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack
- Red HatRHBA-2023:5806IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHBA-2023:5806 — Important
- Red HatRHBA-2023:5949IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHBA-2023:5949 — Important
- Red HatRHBA-2023:6078IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHBA-2023:6078 — Important
- Red HatRHBA-2023:6109IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHBA-2023:6109 — Important
- Red HatRHBA-2023:6254IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHBA-2023:6254 — Important
- Red HatRHBA-2023:6863IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHBA-2023:6863 — Important
- Red HatRHBA-2023:7492IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHBA-2023:7492 — Important
- Red HatRHEA-2023:6562IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHEA-2023:6562 — Important
- Red HatRHEA-2023:6741IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHEA-2023:6741 — Important
- Red HatRHEA-2023:7235IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHEA-2023:7235 — Important
- Red HatRHEA-2023:7239IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHEA-2023:7239 — Important
- Red HatRHEA-2023:7327IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHEA-2023:7327 — Important
- Red HatRHEA-2024:0537IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHEA-2024:0537 — Important
- Red HatRHEA-2024:0555IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHEA-2024:0555 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5006IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHSA-2023:5006 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5009IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHSA-2023:5009 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5530IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHSA-2023:5530 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5541IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHSA-2023:5541 — Important
- Red HatRHSA-2023:5542IMPORTANT2023-10-10
RHSA-2023:5542 — Important
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 40× in last 7d / 186× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 862 total refreshes for this CVE.
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Publicly available exploits
(10 references)Working exploit code is in the public domain (9 GitHub PoCs) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- GitHub PoCtpirate/cve-2023-44487-POCFirst seen Dec 14, 2025
poc for the rst dos attack discovered in 2023
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-52426First seen Sep 16, 2025
HTTP/2 2.0 - Denial Of Service (DOS)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCmoften/CVE-2023-44487-HTTP-2-Rapid-Reset-AttackFirst seen Apr 14, 2025
HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Exploit PoC
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCthreatlabindonesia/CVE-2023-44487-HTTP-2-Rapid-Reset-Exploit-PoCFirst seen Dec 3, 2024
- GitHub PoCnxenon/cve-2023-44487First seen Nov 10, 2023
Examples for Implementing cve-2023-44487 ( HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Attack ) Concept
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCndrscodes/http2-rst-stream-attackerFirst seen Nov 8, 2023
Highly configurable tool to check a server's vulnerability against CVE-2023-44487 by rapidly sending HEADERS and RST_STREAM frames and documenting the server's responses.
Open source ↗ - Open source ↗GitHub PoCReToCode/golang-CVE-2023-44487First seen Oct 25, 2023
- GitHub PoCstudiogangster/CVE-2023-44487First seen Oct 16, 2023
A python based exploit to test out rapid reset attack (CVE-2023-44487)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCsecengjeff/rapidresetclientFirst seen Oct 13, 2023
Tool for testing mitigations and exposure to Rapid Reset DDoS (CVE-2023-44487)
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCAppsynergy-io/CVE-2023-44487First seen Oct 11, 2023
Proof of concept for DoS exploit
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