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Capec-469 Detail
HTTP DoS
Standard Software Typical Severity: Low
Parents: 227
Threats: T61 T64 T77 T269 T289
An attacker performs flooding at the HTTP level to bring down only a particular web application rather than anything listening on a TCP/IP connection. This denial of service attack requires substantially fewer packets to be sent which makes DoS harder to detect. This is an equivalent of SYN flood in HTTP. The idea is to keep the HTTP session alive indefinitely and then repeat that hundreds of times. This attack targets resource depletion weaknesses in web server software. The web server will wait to attacker's responses on the initiated HTTP sessions while the connection threads are being exhausted.
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| External ID | Source | Link | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAPEC-469 | capec | https://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/469.html | |
| CWE-770 | cwe | http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html | |
| CWE-772 | cwe | http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/772.html | |
| T1499.002 | ATTACK | https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1499/002 | Endpoint Denial of Service: Service Exhaustion Flood |
| REF-406 | reference_from_CAPEC | http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20090617/slowloris-http-dos/ | Robert Hansen, Slowris HTTP DoS, 2009--06---17 |
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- HTTP protocol is usedWeb server used is vulnerable to denial of service via HTTP flooding
- Ability to issues hundreds of HTTP requests
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