🛡️ CVE-2016-5004 — xmlrpc-common

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ws-xmlrpc DoS Vulnerability

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-5004 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2016-5004 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.xmlrpc:xmlrpc-common

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
web.archive.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.xmlrpc:xmlrpc-common — —

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