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CVE-2011-2205

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
22/06/2011
Last modified:
11/04/2025

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.

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:prosody:prosody:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0.8.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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