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CVE-2016-8734

Date: October 16, 2017

Apache Subversion's mod_dontdothat module and HTTP clients 1.4.0 through 1.8.16, and 1.9.0 through 1.9.4 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack caused by exponential XML entity expansion. The attack can cause the targeted process to consume an excessive amount of CPU resources or memory.

Language: C

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8734
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8734
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8734
https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2016-8734

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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