CVE-2011-2188

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

Publication date:

21/06/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:matthewwild:luaexpat::::::::		1.1.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:matthewwild:luaexpat:1.0:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:matthewwild:luaexpat:1.0.1:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:matthewwild:luaexpat:1.0.2:::::::*

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CVE-2011-2188

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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