CVE-2016-8734

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    CVE-2016-8734

    Published: 16 Oct 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E, https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html, http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588, http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361, https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 3dd825ec65165222c2347104d174b69b7ba2b0c9
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.4.0
    1.4.2
    1.4.3
    1.4.4
    1.4.5
    1.4.6

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High