Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-5004
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.015
EPSS Ranking 80.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294
- https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
- https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294
- https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
- https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc