Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 16, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026

CVE-2016-8734

Description

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.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation/Apache Subversionv5
Range: 1.4.0 to 1.8.16

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932nvdThird Party Advisory
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94588nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
www.securitytracker.com/id/1037361nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2016-8734-advisory.txtnvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
lists.apache.org/thread.html/7798f5cda1b2a3c70db4be77694b12dec8fcc1a441b00009d44f0e09%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3Envd
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlnvd

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