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

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

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

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

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/[email protected]%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

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

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

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2017-10-16

Updated: 2020-10-20

Type: CWE-400

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

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

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 8

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

Impact Score: 3.6

Exploitability Score: 2.8

Severity: MEDIUM