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CVE-2011-2188

Date: June 20, 2011

LuaExpat before 1.2.0 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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2188
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=711027
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629225
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67862
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/19
http://secunia.com/advisories/44866
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48123
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/4
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-2188

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Resource Management Errors

CWE-399

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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