Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-5004

medium Nessus Plugin ID 219716

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- 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. (CVE-2016-5004)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 219716

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2016_5004.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 5/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5004

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc3-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc3-client-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc3-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc3-common-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc3-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc3-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc3-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc-client, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc-common, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-client-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-common-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-client, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-common, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:xmlrpc3

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/12/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5004

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