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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…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.1%
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- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
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)
- 2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (3 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 (9)
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- prosody-xml-dos(67884) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110615 Re: CVE Request: prosody DoS, djabberd external entity injection (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 44852 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20110614 CVE Request: prosody DoS, djabberd external entity injection (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 48125 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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