CVE-2019-9513

A flaw was found in HTTP/2. An attacker, using PRIORITY frames to flood the system, could cause excessive CPU usage and starvation of other clients. The largest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Mitigation

Red Hat Quay 3.0 uses Nginx 1.12 from Red Hat Software Collections. It will be updated once a fixed is released for Software Collections. In the meantime users of Quay can disable http/2 support in Nginx by following these instructions:

1. Copy the Nginx configuration from the quay container to the host
$ docker cp 3aadf1421ba3:/quay-registry/conf/nginx/ /mnt/quay/nginx

2. Edit the Nginx configuration, removing http/2 support
$ sed -i 's/http2 //g' /mnt/quay/nginx/nginx.conf

3. Restart Nginx with the new configuration mounted into the container, eg:
$ docker run --restart=always -p 443:8443 -p 80:8080 --sysctl net.core.somaxconn=4096 -v /mnt/quay/config:/conf/stack:Z -v /mnt/quay/storage:/datastorage -v /mnt/quay/nginx:/quay-registry/config/nginx:Z -d quay.io/redhat/quay:v3.0.3