What is CVE-2016-7153?

CVE-2016-7153 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Safari, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-09-06.

How severe is CVE-2016-7153?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Apple Safari

CVE-2016-7153

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 whi…

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.140 (96.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

1036741 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
1036742 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, x_refsource_MISC)
1036745 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
cve@mitre.org (Technical Description, x_refsource_MISC)
1036744 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
1036743 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
92773 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
1036746 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-7153?: CVE-2016-7153 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Safari, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2016-09-06.
How severe is CVE-2016-7153?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.