Vulnerability Details CVE-2011-2205
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.016
EPSS Ranking 81.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
Products affected by CVE-2011-2205
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:-
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:prosody:prosody:0.8.0