VulnerabilityModified
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…
MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 2.07%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.07%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 2.07% probability · 80th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- prosody/prosody
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/Patch
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4Patch
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8dPatch
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/Patch
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4Patch
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8dPatch
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.