{"id":"CVE-2016-8734","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.","modified":"2026-05-15T12:03:01.149521316Z","published":"2017-10-16T13:29:00.220Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2017:2163-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2200-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10538-1"],"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:apache:subversion:1.6.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"1.4.1"},{"last_affected":"1.6.7"}],"source":"CPE_FIELD","vendor_product":"apache:subversion"},{"cpes":["cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"],"extracted_events":[{"last_affected":"8.0"},{"last_affected":"9.0"}],"source":"CPE_FIELD","vendor_product":"debian:debian_linux"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}