CVE-2016-6581 Vulnerability Details

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CVE Published: 10/01/2017 | CVE Updated: 06/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2016
Source: mitre | Vendor: n/a | Product: n/a
Status : PUBLISHED

CVE-2016-6581 Description

A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python HPACK library between v1.0.0 and v2.2.0 could be targeted for a denial of service attack, specifically a so-called "HPACK Bomb" attack. This attack occurs when an attacker inserts a header field that is exactly the size of the HPACK dynamic header table into the dynamic header table. The attacker can then send a header block that is simply repeated requests to expand that field in the dynamic table. This can lead to a gigantic compression ratio of 4,096 or better, meaning that 16kB of data can decompress to 64MB of data on the target machine.

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CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: n/a
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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).