CVE-2016-8734

medium

Description

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-10-16

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.09763