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CVE-2011-2205

Date: June 22, 2011

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.

Language: LUA

Severity Score

Related Resources (11)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2205
http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2011-2205

Severity Score

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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