VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2016-5004

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability7.78%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-06-06
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references