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CVE-2016-0466

OpenJDK: insufficient enforcement of totalEntitySizeLimit (JAXP, 8133962)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 19, 2016

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the JAXP component in OpenJDK did not properly enforce the totalEntitySizeLimit limit. An attacker able to make a Java application process a specially crafted XML file could use this flaw to make the application consume an excessive amount of memory.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE not specified