CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2205
5.0 MEDIUM
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- 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
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/ Patch
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4 Patch
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d Patch
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/ Patch
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4 Patch
- http://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d Patch
- http://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1 Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44852 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com