ALPINE-CVE-2019-9518

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CVE-2019-9518
Published: 13 Aug 2019, 21:15
Last modified:03 Dec 2025, 22:45

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

13 Aug 2019, 21:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
03 Dec 2025, 22:45
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a flood of empty frames, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of frames with an empty payload and without the end-of-stream flag. These frames can be DATA, HEADERS, CONTINUATION and/or PUSH_PROMISE. The peer spends time processing each frame disproportionate to attack bandwidth. This can consume excess CPU.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•nodejs

    < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0 | < 10.16.3-r0

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