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CVE-2012-2921

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
21/05/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Universal Feed Parser (aka feedparser or python-feedparser) before 5.1.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted XML ENTITY declaration in a non-ASCII encoded document.

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:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 5.1.1 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mark_pilgrim:feedparser:5.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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