diff --git a/modules/http2/h2_c2.c b/modules/http2/h2_c2.c
index 79f76c0a70f..0c8bad93096 100644
--- a/modules/http2/h2_c2.c
+++ b/modules/http2/h2_c2.c
@@ -397,6 +397,13 @@ static apr_status_t h2_c2_filter_out(ap_filter_t* f, apr_bucket_brigade* bb)
                 ap_bucket_response *resp = e->data;
                 if (resp->status >= HTTP_OK) {
                     conn_ctx->has_final_response = 1;
+                    if (AP_STATUS_IS_HEADER_ONLY(resp->status)) {
+                        /* A header-only response (204/304) is complete without
+                         * a body EOS; mark it complete so c2_process() does not
+                         * abort/reset it as an "incomplete" response (which
+                         * would re-open PR 69580). */
+                        conn_ctx->response_eos_seen = 1;
+                    }
                     break;
                 }
             }
@@ -406,6 +413,19 @@ static apr_status_t h2_c2_filter_out(ap_filter_t* f, apr_bucket_brigade* bb)
         }
     }
 #endif /* AP_HAS_RESPONSE_BUCKETS */
+    /* Note when the response body completes (an EOS passes out). A c2 that
+     * finishes WITHOUT having seen an EOS (e.g. the CGI/handler timed out
+     * mid-body) produced an incomplete response and must reset the stream. */
+    if (!conn_ctx->response_eos_seen) {
+        apr_bucket *e;
+        for (e = APR_BRIGADE_FIRST(bb); e != APR_BRIGADE_SENTINEL(bb);
+             e = APR_BUCKET_NEXT(e)) {
+            if (APR_BUCKET_IS_EOS(e)) {
+                conn_ctx->response_eos_seen = 1;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
     rv = beam_out(f->c, conn_ctx, bb);
 
     ap_log_cerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_TRACE2, rv, f->c,
@@ -804,7 +824,20 @@ static apr_status_t c2_process(h2_conn_ctx_t *conn_ctx, conn_rec *c)
      * request pool may have been deleted. */
     r = NULL;
     if (conn_ctx->beam_out) {
-        h2_beam_close(conn_ctx->beam_out, c);
+        if (conn_ctx->has_final_response && !conn_ctx->response_eos_seen) {
+            /* A final response was started but never completed (no EOS), e.g.
+             * the CGI/handler timed out mid-body. Abort the output beam so the
+             * HTTP/2 stream is RST_STREAM'd. Otherwise s_c2_done() sees the closed
+             * beam as a complete response, sends no reset, and the client is left
+             * waiting for data/EOS that never arrive. Header-only responses
+             * (204/304/HEAD) are marked complete earlier (see the
+             * AP_STATUS_IS_HEADER_ONLY handling) so they are NOT aborted here;
+             * aborting them would re-open PR 69580. */
+            h2_beam_abort(conn_ctx->beam_out, c);
+        }
+        else {
+            h2_beam_close(conn_ctx->beam_out, c);
+        }
     }
 
     ap_log_cerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_TRACE1, 0, c,
diff --git a/modules/http2/h2_c2_filter.c b/modules/http2/h2_c2_filter.c
index 17a2c131d8c..40bb79171f2 100644
--- a/modules/http2/h2_c2_filter.c
+++ b/modules/http2/h2_c2_filter.c
@@ -549,6 +549,12 @@ static apr_status_t pass_response(h2_conn_ctx_t *conn_ctx, ap_filter_t *f,
 
     if (response->status >= HTTP_OK) {
         conn_ctx->has_final_response = 1;
+        if (AP_STATUS_IS_HEADER_ONLY(response->status)) {
+            /* A header-only response (204/304) is complete without a body
+             * EOS; mark it complete so c2_process() does not abort/reset it as
+             * an "incomplete" response (which would re-open PR 69580). */
+            conn_ctx->response_eos_seen = 1;
+        }
     }
     ap_log_cerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_DEBUG, 0, parser->c,
                   APLOGNO(03197) "h2_c2(%s): passed response %d",
@@ -757,6 +763,10 @@ apr_status_t h2_c2_filter_response_out(ap_filter_t *f, apr_bucket_brigade *bb)
     }
 
     if (r->header_only || AP_STATUS_IS_HEADER_ONLY(r->status)) {
+        /* A header-only response (HEAD, or 204/304) is complete without a body
+         * EOS; mark it complete so c2_process() does not abort/reset it as an
+         * "incomplete" response (which would re-open PR 69580). */
+        conn_ctx->response_eos_seen = 1;
         ap_log_cerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_TRACE1, 0, f->c,
                       "h2_c2(%s): headers only, cleanup output brigade", conn_ctx->id);
         b = body_bucket? body_bucket : APR_BRIGADE_FIRST(bb);
diff --git a/modules/http2/h2_conn_ctx.h b/modules/http2/h2_conn_ctx.h
index 3b44856f95a..96228245b5d 100644
--- a/modules/http2/h2_conn_ctx.h
+++ b/modules/http2/h2_conn_ctx.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ struct h2_conn_ctx_t {
     apr_pollfd_t pfd;                /* c1: poll socket input, c2: NUL */
 
     int has_final_response;          /* final HTTP response passed on out */
+    int response_eos_seen;           /* c2: response body completed (EOS seen on out) */
     apr_status_t last_err;           /* APR_SUCCES or last error encountered in filters */
 
     apr_off_t bytes_sent;            /* c2: bytes acutaly sent via c1 */
diff --git a/modules/http2/h2_mplx.c b/modules/http2/h2_mplx.c
index c50e15ccd5d..2463e869c62 100644
--- a/modules/http2/h2_mplx.c
+++ b/modules/http2/h2_mplx.c
@@ -1005,7 +1005,14 @@ static void s_c2_done(h2_mplx *m, conn_rec *c2, h2_conn_ctx_t *conn_ctx)
         if (conn_ctx->beam_out)
           h2_beam_abort(conn_ctx->beam_out, c2);
     }
-    else if (!conn_ctx->beam_out || !h2_beam_is_complete(conn_ctx->beam_out)) {
+    else if (!conn_ctx->beam_out
+             || (!h2_beam_is_complete(conn_ctx->beam_out)
+                 && !conn_ctx->response_eos_seen)) {
+        /* h2_beam_is_complete() cannot tell a header-only response (204/304,
+         * legitimately no body EOS) from a truncated one. response_eos_seen is
+         * set when an EOS passed out OR the response was header-only, so spare
+         * those here; only abort genuinely incomplete output. Without this, a
+         * body-less mod_cache 304 revalidation gets RST_STREAM'd. */
         ap_log_cerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_TRACE1, conn_ctx->last_err, c2,
                       "h2_c2(%s-%d): processing finished with incomplete output",
                       conn_ctx->id, conn_ctx->stream_id);
diff --git a/test/modules/http2/htdocs/cgi/h2cgi_slow.py b/test/modules/http2/htdocs/cgi/h2cgi_slow.py
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..e48588c7f50
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/modules/http2/htdocs/cgi/h2cgi_slow.py
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Start a response (status + headers + a little body), then go silent for
+# longer than the server's `Timeout`. Over HTTP/2 this makes Apache's content
+# filter time out reading from the CGI (AH01220): the response was started but
+# never completed (no EOS). A correct server RST_STREAMs the stream; a buggy
+# one leaves the client hanging. Used by test_105_timeout.py.
+import sys
+import time
+
+sys.stdout.write("Content-Type: application/octet-stream\r\n\r\n")
+sys.stdout.write("X" * 16384)
+sys.stdout.flush()
+time.sleep(30)
diff --git a/test/modules/http2/test_105_timeout.py b/test/modules/http2/test_105_timeout.py
index 22160b45853..0bfeced4dc9 100644
--- a/test/modules/http2/test_105_timeout.py
+++ b/test/modules/http2/test_105_timeout.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import socket
 import time
+from datetime import timedelta
 
 import pytest
 
@@ -164,3 +165,84 @@ def test_h2_105_12(self, env):
         piper.close()
         assert piper.response, f'{piper}'
         assert piper.response['status'] == 408, f"{piper.response}"
+
+    # A CGI that starts a response (status + headers + some body) and then goes
+    # silent past `Timeout` must lead to the HTTP/2 stream being RST_STREAM'd,
+    # not leave the client hanging. Regression test for the mod_http2 hang where
+    # a c2 that finished an *incomplete* response (no EOS, e.g. CGI timed out
+    # mid-body) was treated as complete and no reset was ever sent.
+    def test_h2_105_20(self, env):
+        conf = H2Conf(env)
+        conf.add("Timeout 1")
+        conf.add("PassEnv PATH")  # let the CGI find its interpreter
+        conf.add_vhost_cgi()
+        conf.install()
+        assert env.apache_restart() == 0
+        url = env.mkurl("https", "cgi", "/h2cgi_slow.py")
+        # Open many streams at once on ONE h2 connection. A correct server
+        # RST_STREAMs every silent CGI, so the whole batch finishes in ~Timeout.
+        # A buggy server fails to reset at least one of them (the missed reset is
+        # racy per-stream, but with many streams in flight it is reliably hit),
+        # so curl --parallel waits until its --max-time. Key on elapsed time, not
+        # exit code: --parallel makes the exit code ambiguous, and a hang here is
+        # a multi-second stall versus a sub-second clean teardown. --max-time
+        # also bounds the client so a hang cannot wedge the test.
+        #
+        # Why 10 streams: a single silent stream hangs only racily (about 80%),
+        # and the racy/deterministic knee is sharp. A sweep on a fast idle box
+        # measured 80% hang at 1 to 2 streams but 100% at 3 or more (1 and 2 are
+        # equally racy because the streams are correlated under one session
+        # connection, so it is a threshold, not an independent-probability
+        # curve). The knee rises on faster or less-loaded machines (the server
+        # wins the per-stream reset race more often), so 10 keeps a wide margin
+        # for CI hardware variance. The streams are concurrent, so the larger
+        # count costs no wall-clock, and 10 is well under the default 100 max
+        # concurrent streams.
+        count = 10
+        max_time = 10
+        r = env.curl_raw([url] * count, options=[
+            "--parallel", "--parallel-immediate", "--max-time", str(max_time)])
+        assert r.duration < timedelta(seconds=max_time - 2), \
+            f'streams hung waiting for RST_STREAM (batch took {r.duration}): {r}'
+        # Resetting each silent CGI is logged as a CGI timeout (cgid) and the
+        # failed body read that follows it (core); both are expected here.
+        time.sleep(1)  # let the log flush
+        env.httpd_error_log.ignore_recent(
+            lognos = [
+                "AH01220",  # cgid: Timeout waiting for output from CGI script
+                "AH00574",  # core: ap_content_length_filter, apr_bucket_read() failed
+            ]
+        )
+
+    # Complement to test_h2_105_20: a body-less response that is missing an EOS
+    # must NOT be reset over HTTP/2. mod_cache revalidation of a cached,
+    # immediately-stale resource emits exactly such a 304 (EOR + Flush, no EOS).
+    # This guards the incomplete-response reset against re-opening PR 69580:
+    # only a response that began a body and is missing EOS should be
+    # reset, never a header-only one.
+    def test_h2_105_21(self, env):
+        cacheroot = f"{env.server_dir}/cacheroot"
+        env.mkpath(cacheroot)
+        conf = H2Conf(env)
+        conf.add(f"""
+            CacheRoot "{cacheroot}"
+            CacheEnable disk /
+            Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=0"
+            """)
+        conf.add_vhost_test1()
+        conf.install()
+        assert env.apache_restart() == 0
+        url = env.mkurl("https", "test1", "/006/006.css")
+        # prime the cache (stored, immediately stale via max-age=0)
+        r = env.curl_get(url)
+        assert r.exit_code == 0, f'{r}'
+        assert r.response["status"] == 200
+        lm = r.response["header"]["last-modified"]
+        # revalidate: mod_cache freshens the stale entry and the origin returns a
+        # body-less 304. The h2 stream must close cleanly; a regression shows up
+        # as a curl exit (92, "stream not closed cleanly"), not as a 304.
+        for _ in range(5):
+            r = env.curl_get(url, options=["-H", "Cache-Control: max-age=0",
+                                           "-H", f"if-modified-since: {lm}"])
+            assert r.exit_code == 0, f'304 stream was reset (curl {r.exit_code}): {r}'
+            assert r.response["status"] == 304, f'{r.response}'