What is CVE-2016-6312?

CVE-2016-6312 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2016-6312?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

CVE-2016-6312

The mod_dontdothat component of the mod_dav_svn Apache module in Subversion as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote authenticated users with access to the webdav repository to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and httpd crash). NOTE: Exists as a regression to CVE-2009-1955.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2017-07-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (81.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 5.11

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/92320 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6312?: CVE-2016-6312 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2016-6312?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.