AIKIDO-2026-122075
h2 is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)
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Medium Risk
This Affects:
h2TL;DR
The HPACK header decoder inserts every decoded header field into an http::HeaderMap using append(). HeaderMap panics with a size-overflow expectation once its internal capacity is exceeded (around 24,576 unique entries), which is far below the default max_header_list_size budget. A peer that sends a single request or response carrying an absurd number of unique header fields triggers that panic, crashing the connection task and terminating service. The fix switches to try_append() so oversize header lists are rejected at the stream level with a reset instead of aborting.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and your application uses h2 to accept HTTP/2 traffic from untrusted peers without a small max_header_list_size (for example h2 used directly rather than through hyper, whose 16 KB default blocks the trigger).
Background info
h2 is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.1.0 - 0.4.14.
How to fix this
Upgrade the h2 library to the patch version.
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