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CVE-2011-1755

CVE information

Published

12 years ago

Last Modified

1 month ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

CVSSv3.1 Severity

High

Impact Analysis

Description

jabberd2 before 2.2.14 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..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
5/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
None

CVSSv3.1 Score

Severity
High
Base Score
7.5/10
Exploit Score
3.9/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
Impact Score
3.6/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
High
Integrity Impact
None
Scope
Unchanged
User Interaction
None

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:jabberd2:jabberd2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 2.2.14
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
10.7.0 10.7.2
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
10.7.0 10.7.2
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 10.6.8
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- 10.6.8