Unscored severity · published Jun 22, 2011
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…
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CVSS
2.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.1% · higher than 81% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PR
Prosody · Prosody
through 0.8.0; 0.1.0; 0.2.0; 0.3.0; 0.4.0; 0.4.1; +10 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2205
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2205
Patch
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
Patch
http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
Patch
http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
Patch
http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
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