CVE-2016-7153 (GCVE-0-2016-7153)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-09-06 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:50
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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