CVE-2016-5004

medium Apache
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
1.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 21% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Published: June 6, 2017 (3264 days ago)
Last Modified: May 13, 2026
Vendor: Apache
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

CWE-400

Affected Products

apache ws-xmlrpc

References

🔗 www.openwall.com 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 0ang3el.blogspot.in 🔗 github.com