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CVE-2011-2205

Prosody before 0.8.1 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

2011-06-22T21:55:01.700

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 5.0 (MEDIUM)

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-399
Affected Vendors & Products
Type Vendor Product Version/Range Vulnerable?
Application prosody prosody ≤ 0.8.0 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.1.0 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.2.0 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.3.0 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.4.0 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.4.1 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.4.2 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.5.0 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.5.1 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.5.2 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.6 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.6.0 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.6.1 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.7 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.7.0 Yes
Application prosody prosody 0.8 Yes
References