CVE-2016-5004

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 Medium 6.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-5004
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-06-06T18:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-06-16T13:06:12
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:apache:ws-xmlrpc:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 6.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 2.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html Third Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294 Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5004
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-5004
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:41:42 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 17:29:24 2017-06-06T18:29Z 2017-06-06T18:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 17:29:24 2017-06-16T13:06:12 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 17:29:24 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated