CyberRota Analysis
This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5. It affects Apache. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
Public Exploit Signal
A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.
GitHub PoC Links
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CVE
CVE-2016-5004
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
6.49%
Apache
Original NVD 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.
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