CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2205

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-06-22 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-06-22
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

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.

Affected configurations

• prosody prosody (<= 0.8.0) • prosody prosody 0.1.0 • prosody prosody 0.2.0 • prosody prosody 0.3.0 • prosody prosody 0.4.0 • prosody prosody 0.4.1 • prosody prosody 0.4.2 • prosody prosody 0.5.0 • prosody prosody 0.5.1 • prosody prosody 0.5.2 • prosody prosody 0.6 • prosody prosody 0.6.0 • prosody prosody 0.6.1 • prosody prosody 0.7 • prosody prosody 0.7.0 • prosody prosody 0.8

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References