CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-1757
5.0 MEDIUM
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- 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
DJabberd 0.84 and earlier 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
• brad fitzpatrick djabberd (<= 0.84)
• brad fitzpatrick djabberd 0.80
• brad fitzpatrick djabberd 0.81
• brad fitzpatrick djabberd 0.82
• brad fitzpatrick djabberd 0.83