CVE-2016-8734

At a glance

Severity
Not available
EPSS
EPSS 6.38 % · percentile 94 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
apache
NVD status
Modified

Description

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.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 4.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Subversionaffected 1.4.0 to 1.8.16 ; affected 1.9.0 to 1.9.4

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD