CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-5004
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The Content-Encoding HTTP header feature in ws-xmlrpc 3.1.3 as used in Apache Archiva allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) by decompressing a large file containing zeroes.
Affected configurations
• apache ws-xmlrpc 3.1.3
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294 Third Party Advisory
- https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294 Third Party Advisory
- https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc Exploit, Third Party Advisory