Vulnerability Monitor

The vendors, products, and vulnerabilities you care about

CVE-2011-1755

jabberd2 before 2.2.14 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Published

2011-06-21T02:52:43.373

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.5 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

  • Access Vector: NETWORK
  • Access Complexity: LOW
  • Authentication: NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: PARTIAL
Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses
  • Type: Primary
    CWE-776
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application jabberd2 jabberd2 < 2.2.14 Yes
Operating System fedoraproject fedora 13 Yes
Operating System fedoraproject fedora 14 Yes
Operating System fedoraproject fedora 15 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x < 10.6.8 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x < 10.7.2 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server < 10.6.8 Yes
Operating System apple mac_os_x_server < 10.7.2 Yes
References