CVE-2016-8734

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8734
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8734.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8734
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Published
2017-10-16T13:29:00.220Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:03:01.149521316Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:1.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "apache:subversion",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "1.4.1"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "1.6.7"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages