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medium 6.5

CVE-2016-5004 json

ws-xmlrpc DoS Vulnerability

published 2017-06-06 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-r2pg-w96p-pcpj , EUVD-2022-5067

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.7%
EPSS 7.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-5004 updated cvss 5.0

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

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 xmlrpc Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 xmlrpc3, xmlrpc3-client, xmlrpc3-common, xmlrpc3-server, xmlrpc3-javadoc Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 xmlrpc, xmlrpc-client, xmlrpc-common, xmlrpc-server, xmlrpc-javadoc Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 xmlrpc-common
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 camel Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 camel Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 xmlrpc-common Red Hat Software Collections rh-java-common-xmlrpc, rh-java-common-xmlrpc-client, rh-java-common-xmlrpc-common, rh-java-common-xmlrpc-server, rh-java-common-xmlrpc-javadoc
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Storage 3 xmlrpc-common
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8 xmlrpc xmlrpc Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10 xmlrpc xmlrpc
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.75% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/0ang3el/unsafe-xmlrpc referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.xmlrpc:xmlrpc-common
<=3.1.3
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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