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CVE-2008-5185

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
21/11/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "

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:geshi:geshi:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.0.7.22 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.2_beta_1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.7.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:geshi:geshi:1.0.7.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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