AUGUST 4, 2026
Live Feed
Back to database
Case File

CVE-2016-6580

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.79%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-01-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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.