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    CVE-2016-8734

    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.

    Published:Nov 29, 2016
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Oct 16, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.06033
    CVSS Score:6.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Apache
    Product
    Subversion
    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    User Interaction
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    Integrity
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