Vulnerability GHSA-ffq8-576r-v26g

High Risk
HIGH RISK
CVSS Score: 7.5
Score Range: 7.0–8.9
High severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0–8.9). Serious vulnerabilities that should be prioritized soon after critical fixes.
7 years ago
July 05, 2019 at 09:11 PM UTC
HPACK Denial of Service vulnerability (HPACK Bomb)
1.0.0 - 2.2.0
1.0.0 - 2.2.0

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.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
7 years ago
July 05, 2019 at 09:11 PM UTC
Fixed (2.3.0)
10 years ago
August 04, 2016 at 08:55 AM UTC
Last Modified
1 year ago
November 30, 2024 at 05:39 AM UTC