CVE-2016-6580

HIGH

Python Priority Library <1.2.0 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A HTTP/2 implementation built using any version of the Python priority library prior to version 1.2.0 could be targeted by a malicious peer by having that peer assign priority information for every possible HTTP/2 stream ID. The priority tree would happily continue to store the priority information for each stream, and would therefore allocate unbounded amounts of memory. Attempting to actually use a tree like this would also cause extremely high CPU usage to maintain the tree.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92311
Mitigation, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://python-hyper.org/priority/en/latest/security/CVE-2016-6580.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0048
EPSS Percentile 65.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (4)
pypi/priority 0 - 1.2.0PyPI
python/python_priority_library 1.0.0
python/python_priority_library 1.1.0
python/python_priority_library 1.1.1
Published Jan 10, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026