CVE-2016-8734

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.

• CWE-400

• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
• https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txtIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932Third Party Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
• https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txtIssue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

Published

Oct 16, 2017

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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