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CVE-2016-5004 ws-xmlrpc DoS Vulnerability

MediumCVSS 6.5 EPSS 7.7%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common(Maven) <= 3.1.3 No fix listed
org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common(Maven) = 3.0 No fix listed
org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common(Maven) = 3.0b1 No fix listed
org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common(Maven) = 3.0rc1 No fix listed
org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common(Maven) = 3.1 No fix listed
org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common(Maven) = 3.1.1 No fix listed
org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common(Maven) = 3.1.2 No fix listed
org.apache.xmlrpc/xmlrpc-common(Maven) = 3.1.3 No fix listed
apache ws-xmlrpc = 3.1.3 No fix listed

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