VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-8734

medium
Published 2017-10-16 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.5

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.9.5-1
sid Fixed 1.9.5-1
forky Fixed 1.9.5-1
bullseye Fixed 1.9.5-1
bookworm Fixed 1.9.5-1
9.0 Affected —
8.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
apache apachesubversion1.4.0
apache apachesubversion1.4.1
apache apachesubversion1.4.2
apache apachesubversion1.4.3
apache apachesubversion1.4.4
apache apachesubversion1.4.5
apache apachesubversion1.4.6
apache apachesubversion1.5.0
apache apachesubversion1.5.1
apache apachesubversion1.5.2
apache apachesubversion1.5.3
apache apachesubversion1.5.4
apache apachesubversion1.5.5
apache apachesubversion1.5.6
apache apachesubversion1.5.7
apache apachesubversion1.5.8
apache apachesubversion1.6.0
apache apachesubversion1.6.1
apache apachesubversion1.6.2
apache apachesubversion1.6.3
apache apachesubversion1.6.4
apache apachesubversion1.6.5
apache apachesubversion1.6.6
apache apachesubversion1.6.7
apache apachesubversion1.6.8
apache apachesubversion1.6.9
apache apachesubversion1.6.10
apache apachesubversion1.6.11
apache apachesubversion1.6.12
apache apachesubversion1.6.13
apache apachesubversion1.6.14
apache apachesubversion1.6.15
apache apachesubversion1.6.16
apache apachesubversion1.6.17
apache apachesubversion1.6.18
apache apachesubversion1.6.19
apache apachesubversion1.6.20
apache apachesubversion1.6.21
apache apachesubversion1.6.23
apache apachesubversion1.7.0
apache apachesubversion1.7.1
apache apachesubversion1.7.2
apache apachesubversion1.7.3
apache apachesubversion1.7.4
apache apachesubversion1.7.5
apache apachesubversion1.7.6
apache apachesubversion1.7.7
apache apachesubversion1.7.8
apache apachesubversion1.7.9
apache apachesubversion1.7.10
apache apachesubversion1.7.11
apache apachesubversion1.7.12
apache apachesubversion1.7.13
apache apachesubversion1.7.14
apache apachesubversion1.7.15
apache apachesubversion1.7.16
apache apachesubversion1.7.17
apache apachesubversion1.7.18
apache apachesubversion1.7.19
apache apachesubversion1.7.20
apache apachesubversion1.8.0
apache apachesubversion1.8.1
apache apachesubversion1.8.2
apache apachesubversion1.8.3
apache apachesubversion1.8.4
apache apachesubversion1.8.5
apache apachesubversion1.8.6
apache apachesubversion1.8.7
apache apachesubversion1.8.8
apache apachesubversion1.8.9
apache apachesubversion1.8.10
apache apachesubversion1.8.11
apache apachesubversion1.8.12
apache apachesubversion1.8.13
apache apachesubversion1.8.14
apache apachesubversion1.8.15
apache apachesubversion1.8.16
apache apachesubversion1.9.0
apache apachesubversion1.9.1
apache apachesubversion1.9.2
apache apachesubversion1.9.3
apache apachesubversion1.9.4

References

CWEs

CWE-400

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.