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ejabberd XML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability (Windows)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Denial of Service
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
12 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
This host is installed with ejabberd and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
The flaw is due to an error within the parsing of certain XML input, which can be exploited to cause a high CPU and memory consumption via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references.
Affected Software
Affected Software
ejabberd versions before 2.1.7 and 3.x before 3.0.0-alpha-3
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to ejabberd version 2.1.7, 3.0.0-alpha-3 or later.