Description
Http4s is a Scala interface for HTTP services. Prior to 0.23.37 and 1.0.0-M48, Ember’s HTTP/2 read loop parses a frame’s 24-bit declared length but waits to buffer the entire payload before comparing it with SETTINGS_MAX_FRAME_SIZE. An unauthenticated peer can declare a payload near 16 MiB on a connection where Ember advertised 16 KiB and either complete or slowly stream it, causing up to 1024-fold memory amplification per connection before processFrame can reject the frame. The shared H2Connection.readLoop affects withHttp2 servers and clients, while HTTP/2-disabled configurations are unaffected, and the patch rejects oversized frames before buffering their payloads. This issue is fixed in versions 0.23.37 and 1.0.0-M48.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| http4s | http4s | < 0.23.37, >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M48 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.12 | < 0.23.37 | 0.23.37 | GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286 |
| Maven | org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 | < 0.23.37 | 0.23.37 | GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286 |
| Maven | org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_2.13 | >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M48 | 1.0.0-M48 | GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286 |
| Maven | org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 | < 0.23.37 | 0.23.37 | GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286 |
| Maven | org.http4s:http4s-ember-core_3 | >= 1.0.0-M1, < 1.0.0-M48 | 1.0.0-M48 | GHSA-gq9p-f254-h286 |