CVE
- Id
- 93401
- CVE No.
- CVE-2016-6581
- Status
- Candidate
- 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.
- Phase
- Assigned (20160803)
- Votes
- None (candidate not yet proposed)
- Comments
