GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-r2pg-w96p-pcpj ws-xmlrpc DoS Vulnerability
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2016-5004
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.apache.xmlrpc:xmlrpc-common
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2023-07-31
Affected packages
• Maven org.apache.xmlrpc:xmlrpc-common: <= 3.1.3 (no fix yet)
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2016-5004 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… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5004 advisory
- https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160716070844/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171111065719/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171114185236/https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5 web