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CVE-2016-5004

xmlrpc: DoS through decompression-bomb attack when Content-Encoding=gzip

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 24, 2016

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

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.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-409 · Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)