CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-1753

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-06-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-06-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Description

expat_erl.c in ejabberd before 2.1.7 and 3.x before 3.0.0-alpha-3, and exmpp before 0.9.7, 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.

Affected configurations

• process-one ejabberd (<= 2.1.6) • process-one ejabberd 0.9 • process-one ejabberd 0.9.1 • process-one ejabberd 0.9.8 • process-one ejabberd 1.0.0 • process-one ejabberd 1.1.0 • process-one ejabberd 1.1.1 • process-one ejabberd 1.1.1.0 • process-one ejabberd 1.1.1.1 • process-one ejabberd 1.1.2 • process-one ejabberd 1.1.3 • process-one ejabberd 1.1.14 • process-one ejabberd 2.0.0 • process-one ejabberd 2.0.1 2 • process-one ejabberd 2.0.2 • process-one ejabberd 2.0.3 • process-one ejabberd 2.0.4 • process-one ejabberd 2.0.5 • process-one ejabberd 2.1.0 • process-one ejabberd 2.1.1 • process-one ejabberd 2.1.2 • process-one ejabberd 2.1.3 • process-one ejabberd 2.1.4 • process-one ejabberd 2.1.5 • process-one ejabberd 3.0.0 • process-one exmpp (<= 0.9.6) • process-one exmpp 0.9.1 • process-one exmpp 0.9.2 • process-one exmpp 0.9.3 • process-one exmpp 0.9.4 • process-one exmpp 0.9.5

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

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