CVE-2011-1755

high

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.

References

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=700390

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67770

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-06-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High