ghsa-x5mc-4p5h-grh2
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:14
Modified
2025-04-20 03:46
Details

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.

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{
   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2016-8734",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-400",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2017-10-16T13:29:00Z",
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "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.",
   id: "GHSA-x5mc-4p5h-grh2",
   modified: "2025-04-20T03:46:51Z",
   published: "2022-05-13T01:14:24Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8734",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
}


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