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The Cloudflare Blog·Oct 10, 2023·16 min read50

HTTP/2 Zero-Day vulnerability results in record-breaking DDoS attacks

The “HTTP/2 Rapid Reset” attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. Cloudflare has mitigated a barrage of these attacks in recent months, including an attack three times larger than any previous attack we’ve observed

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