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CVE-2016-5004

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-06-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

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 products

• Apache Ws-Xmlrpc: 3.1.3

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294
• https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
• https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294
• https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
• https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc

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