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Dangerous vulnerability can be exploited to carry out massive DDoS attacks (CVE-2023-44487)

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2023-44487
Rapid Reset Denial-of-Service in HTTP/2 (CWE-400 Resource Exhaustion)
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Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon AWS revealed that a zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol has been used to mount massive, high-volume DDoS attacks, which they dubbed HTTP/2 Rapid Reset. In late August 2023, Cloudflare discovered a zero-day vulnerability developed by an unknown threat actor.

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