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CVE-2016-8734
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-10-16T13:29:00.220 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:54:54.297

Summary

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.

Affected products

apache — subversion

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References

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