CVE-2016-8734

MEDIUM

Apache Subversion <1.8.16, <1.9.4 - DoS

Title source: llm

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.

References (6)

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361

[Mailing List] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E

[Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt

[Vendor Advisory] https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.1288

EPSS Percentile 93.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-400

Status draft

Affected Products (50)

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

apache/subversion

... and 35 more

Timeline

Published Oct 16, 2017

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026