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cve: "CVE-2016-8734"
severity: "LOW"
cvss: 3.1
epss: "6.4%"
vendor: "Apache Software Foundation"
kev: false
exploited: false
published: "2017-10-16 13:29:00"
tags: [cve, security, low]
source: tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier
exported: "2026-09-17T18:50:19+02:00"
---

# CVE-2016-8734

> 3.1 LOW

## Beschreibung

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.

## Referenzen

- <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588>
- <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E>
- <http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361>
- <http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932>
- <https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html>
- <https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txt>

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_Exportiert aus dem [tsecurity.de CVE-Dossier](https://tsecurity.de/cve?cve=CVE-2016-8734) · Datenquellen: EUVD (ENISA), NVD, OSV, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, Exploit-DB, BSI BITS_