CVE-2016-5004

MEDIUM

Apache Ws-xmlrpc - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

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.

References (5)

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294

[Third Party Advisory] https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc

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Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0114

EPSS Percentile 78.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (3)

apache/ws-xmlrpc

org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common Maven

n/a/n/a

Published Jun 06, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026