High severity · published Jun 21, 2011
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…
7.5
CVSS
3.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.7% · higher than 90% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
13; 14; 15 · source: NVD
JA
Jabberd2 · Jabberd2
before 2.2.14 · source: NVD
MO
Mac OS X · Apple
before 10.6.8; 10.7.0 before 10.7.2 · source: NVD
MO
Mac OS X Server · Apple
before 10.6.8; 10.7.0 before 10.7.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1755
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-1755
Broken Link
http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/tags/jabberd-2.2.14/ChangeLog
Mailing List
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061341.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061458.html
Mailing List
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061482.html
Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/44787
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