Advisories for Maven/Com.typesafe.akka/Akka-Http-Core_2.13 package

2023

HTTP/2 Stream Cancellation Attack

HTTP/2 Rapid reset attack The HTTP/2 protocol allows clients to indicate to the server that a previous stream should be canceled by sending a RST_STREAM frame. The protocol does not require the client and server to coordinate the cancellation in any way, the client may do it unilaterally. The client may also assume that the cancellation will take effect immediately when the server receives the RST_STREAM frame, before any other …