CVE-2016-5004

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Ws-xmlrpc
Vendor
CVE Published:
6 June 2017

Summary

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.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294
vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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