CVE-2016-8734

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Oct 16, 2017
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Oct 18, 2016

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Apache SubversionApache Software Foundation	1.4.0 to 1.8.16Affected 1.9.0 to 1.9.4Affected

References

94588vdb-entry
[announce] 20161129 [SECURITY] Apache Subversion 1.9.5 releasedmailing-list
1037361vdb-entry
DSA-3932vendor-advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt

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