Security Advisory

CVE-2016-7153

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-09-06 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:50:47
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The HTTP/2 protocol does not consider the role of the TCP congestion window in providing information about content length, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data by leveraging a web-browser configuration in which third-party cookies are sent, aka a "HEIST" attack.