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CVE-2011-2205

CVE information

Published

11 years ago

Last Modified

5 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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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..

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

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -
cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -

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