CVE-2011-2205

high

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6

http://secunia.com/advisories/44852

http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1

http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d

http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4

http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-06-22

Updated: 2026-06-16

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

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01621