CVE-2016-5004

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

6.5 medium

EPSS

8%p94

Published

Jun 6, 2017 (Jun 6, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: apache
Products: ws-xmlrpc
Weakness: CWE-400
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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