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CVE-2016-5004
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-06-06T18:29:00.450 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:48:35.870

Summary

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

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References

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