Vulnerability CVE-2016-5004
Published: 2017-06-06

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Apache -> Ws-xmlrpc 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/12/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91736
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036294
https://0ang3el.blogspot.in/2016/07/beware-of-ws-xmlrpc-library-in-your.html
https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc
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