CVE-2016-8734

Public on 2017-02-06
Modified on 2017-02-06
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.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
4.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 mod_dav_svn 2017-02-06 ALAS-2017-794
Amazon Linux 1 subversion 2017-02-06 ALAS-2017-794

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 4.4 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2016-8734 Mitre: CVE-2016-8734