GHSA-ffq8-576r-v26g
Vulnerability from github
Published
2019-07-05 21:11
Modified
2024-09-20 21:39
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
VLAI Severity ?
Summary
HPACK Denial of Service vulnerability (HPACK Bomb)
Details
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.
{
"affected": [
{
"package": {
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"name": "hpack"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "1.0.0"
},
{
"fixed": "2.3.0"
}
],
"type": "ECOSYSTEM"
}
]
}
],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2016-6581"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": true,
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:34:33Z",
"nvd_published_at": null,
"severity": "HIGH"
},
"details": "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.",
"id": "GHSA-ffq8-576r-v26g",
"modified": "2024-09-20T21:39:26Z",
"published": "2019-07-05T21:11:05Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6581"
},
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ffq8-576r-v26g"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/hpack/PYSEC-2017-87.yaml"
},
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://github.com/python-hyper/hpack"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://python-hyper.org/hpack/en/latest/security/CVE-2016-6581.html"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20200227233559/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92315"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "http://python-hyper.org/projects/hpack/en/stable/security/CVE-2016-6581.html"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
},
{
"score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
"type": "CVSS_V4"
}
],
"summary": "HPACK Denial of Service vulnerability (HPACK Bomb)"
}
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Nomenclature
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