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 severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.4
See breakdown

Affected Packages

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

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