CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2016-6580
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.79%
Original NVD 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.