Denial of Service Vulnerability in ws-xmlrpc 3.1.3

CVE-2016-5004 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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