CriticalCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-78663 (CVSS 9.1)
NVD · officialPublished Oct 8, 2026Risk 50/100EPSS 0.2%
The HTTP/2 server can refund connection-level flow control twice for the same data: Once when a client resets a stream (refunding data for any sent-but-unread portion of the stream), and again when a request handler reads the buffered data. A malicious client can exploit this to bypass the configured connection-level flow control limit (MaxReceiveBufferPerConnection). Total buffered data is still limited by the concurrent stream limit and stream-level flow control.
Technical details
CVSS
9.1
AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:HighA:High
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