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CVE-2016-6580
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-10T15:59:00.377 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:51:24.140

Summary

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.

Affected products

python — python_priority_library

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References

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