CVE-2016-5488 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5488?

CVE-2016-5488 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Oracle Weblogic Server, published on 25 Oct 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle WebLogic Server component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 10.3.6.0 and 12.1.3.0 allows remote attackers to affect availability via vectors related to Web Container, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-3445.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5488?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Oracle Weblogic Server.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5488?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-5488 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-5488 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5488 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Oracle Weblogic Server

• CVE-2020-14750 Oracle WebLogic Server Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-14882 Oracle WebLogic Server Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-14644 Oracle WebLogic Server Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-2883 Oracle WebLogic Server Unspecified Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-2551 Oracle Fusion Middleware Unspecified Exploited Critical 9.8

All Oracle Weblogic Server vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4c4x-mhx7-fqjh.