CVE-2016-7152
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 13%
exploitation probability
13%top 4% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
The HTTPS 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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/new-attack-steals-ssns-e-mail-addresses-and-more-from-https-pages/https://tom.vg/papers/heist_blackhat2016.pdfhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92769http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036741http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036742http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036743http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036744http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036745http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036746