CVE-2011-1755
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-776
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44787Advisory
- http://codex.xiaoka.com/svn/jabberd2/tags/jabberd-2.2.14/ChangeLog
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2011//Oct/msg00003.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061341.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061458.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-June/061482.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44957
- http://secunia.com/advisories/45112