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CVE-2008-5185
The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via…
Medium5.0EPSS 3.9%
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- mitre
Description
The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 32377 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- geshi-xml-dos(46769) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://geshi.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geshi/trunk/geshi-1.0.X/src/geshi.php?r1=1321&r2=1322&view=patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081120 CVE id request: another geshi issue (was: [oss-security] GeSHi: Clarification about the recent security (non-)issues (SA32559)) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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