Praxis affected by HTTP/2 Bomb
### Summary Multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities have been discovered in HTTP/2 server implementations. All have been rated with a severity impact of [Important](https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification). The vulnerabilities target HPACK, the header compression scheme in HTTP/2, where a small request can trigger large memory allocations on the server. ### Details Credit to the original researcher, I'm mostly just run their tool against the code base. [Security Bulletins](https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2026-007): https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/RHSB-2026-007 Exploit details: https://blog.calif.io/p/codex-discovered-a-hidden-http2-bomb This bug was fixed in upstream pingora v0.8.1, but our fork (v0.8.2) is missing this important [PR](https://github.com/praxis-proxy/pingora/commit/d193c8d49b8b7c1c1ede93183759caa4f6906bbd) to set the default h2 options. (edited) ### PoC * Generate certificates ``` openssl req -x509 -newkey ec -pkeyopt ec_paramgen_curve:prime256v1 -keyout server.key -out server.crt -days 3650 -nodes -subj "/CN=localhost" ``` * Create praxis config as follow ``` listeners: - name: web address: "0.0.0.0:8443" tls: certificates: - cert_path: /etc/praxis/server.crt key_path: /etc/praxis/server.key filter_chains: [main] filter_chains: - name: main filters: - filter: router routes: - path_prefix: "/" host: "example.api.com" cluster: backend - filter: load_balancer clusters: - name: backend endpoints: - "
GHSA-cjcg-cxmh-9wcr
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:GHSA-cjcg-cxmh-9wcr
praxis-proxy
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 0.5.2
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "SEMVER",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "0.5.2"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "praxis-proxy",
"purl": "pkg:cargo/praxis-proxy",
"ecosystem": "crates.io"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/10/GHSA-cjcg-cxmh-9wcr/GHSA-cjcg-cxmh-9wcr.json"
}
}
]Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /database_specific/severity
- Event
- #72770 · Revision 1
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