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Slowloris Denial of Service Attack

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Disclosed
2009-06-17
Created
2018-06-14

Description

Slowloris tries to keep many connections to the target web server open and hold them open as long as possible.
It accomplishes this by opening connections to the target web server and sending a partial request.
Periodically, it will send subsequent HTTP headers, adding to-but never completing-the request.
Affected servers will keep these connections open, filling their maximum concurrent connection pool,
eventually denying additional connection attempts from clients.

Authors

RSnake
Gokberk Yaltirakli
Daniel Teixeira
Matthew Kienow matthew_kienow[AT]rapid7.com

References

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands ‘show options’ or ‘show advanced’:


    msf > use auxiliary/dos/http/slowloris
    msf auxiliary(slowloris) > show actions
        ...actions...
    msf auxiliary(slowloris) > set ACTION < action-name >
    msf auxiliary(slowloris) > show options
        ...show and set options...
    msf auxiliary(slowloris) > run
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