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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2016-5004

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

The Content-Encoding HTTP header feature in 'ws-xmlrpc' used in Apache Archiva allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service (resource consumption) by decompressing a large file containing zeroes.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published