GHSA-r2pg-w96p-pcpjMediumCVSS 6.5
ws-xmlrpc DoS Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 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 products1
- maven/org.apache.xmlrpc:xmlrpc-common:<= 3.1.3
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5004
- https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160716070844/http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171111065719/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736
- https://web.archive.org/web/20171114185236/https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r2pg-w96p-pcpj