CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-3288

7.5 HIGH Published 2011-10-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-10-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-776

Description

Cisco Unified Presence before 8.5(4) does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory and CPU consumption, and process crash) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, aka Bug IDs CSCtq89842 and CSCtq88547, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

Affected configurations

• cisco unified presence (< 8.5\(4\))

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-776 Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs weakness

References