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Praxis affected by HTTP/2 Bomb

Type: advisorySource: OSV1 source record

### 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: - "

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Security context

Source reference: osv:GHSA-cjcg-cxmh-9wcr

praxis-proxy

Source reference: /affected/0/package/name

Affected versions
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Fixed versions
0.5.2

Source reference: /affected/0/ranges

Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data

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[
  {
    "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

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