CVE-2011-2205
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.06% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2011-06-22 21:00Z15 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 22:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2011-05-31
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6ae4d29788e38ba5f6ce769d8b9d5658831ad1b7ff2518fb48dc0f90df9f2243
05 Affected products
06 References
- blog.prosody.imhttp://blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
- hg.prosody.imhttp://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comprosody-xml-dos(67884)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
- hg.prosody.imhttp://hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20110615 Re: CVE Request: prosody DoS, djabberd external entity injectionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
- secunia.com44852http://secunia.com/advisories/44852
- prosody.imhttp://prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20110614 CVE Request: prosody DoS, djabberd external entity injectionhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
- www.securityfocus.com48125http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- prosody Fixed in 0.7.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- prosody Fixed in 0.7.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- prosody Fixed in 0.7.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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