CVE-2016-8734 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09@3Cannounce.apache.org3E https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5