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CVE-2016-5004
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…
Medium6.5EPSS 7.7%
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- Updated
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- redhat
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.7% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.xmlrpc:xmlrpc-commonGHSA-r2pg-w96p-pcpj (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- [oss-security] 20160712 Vulnerabilities in Apache Archiva (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 1036294 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 91736 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-r2pg-w96p-pcpj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .