Resource exhaustion in XML-RPC - CVE-2016-5004

 

Resource exhaustion in XML-RPC - CVE-2016-5004

Published: June 1, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU76755
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5004
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

XML-RPC
IBM Observability with Instana
IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI
Zoho ManageEngine OpManager

How to mitigate CVE-2016-5004

Install updates from vendor's website.

XML-RPC - update to 3.1.4
IBM Observability with Instana - update to 1.0.299
IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus WebGUI - update to 8.1.0.41
Zoho ManageEngine OpManager - update to 12.7 127104

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