CVE-2016-8734

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8734
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8734.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8734
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Published
2017-10-16T13:29:00Z
Modified
2025-08-09T19:01:28Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
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Details

Apache Subversion's mod_dontdothat module and HTTP clients 1.4.0 through 1.8.16, and 1.9.0 through 1.9.4 are vulnerable to a denial-of-service attack caused by exponential XML entity expansion. The attack can cause the targeted process to consume an excessive amount of CPU resources or memory.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/subversion

Affected ranges

Type
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Repo
https://github.com/apache/subversion
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