CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
Low
EPSS
Percentile
78.1%
ejabberd is prone to a vulnerability that may allow attackers to cause
an affected application to enter an infinite loop, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:process-one:ejabberd";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.103369");
script_cve_id("CVE-2011-4320");
script_version("2023-07-28T05:05:23+0000");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_name("ejabberd 'mod_pubsub' Module Denial of Service Vulnerability");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50737");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd/release_notes/release_note_ejabberd_2.1.9/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1498");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-28 05:05:23 +0000 (Fri, 28 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2011-12-20 11:14:21 +0100 (Tue, 20 Dec 2011)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2011 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_ejabberd_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ejabberd/detected");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"ejabberd is prone to a vulnerability that may allow attackers to cause
an affected application to enter an infinite loop, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"ejabberd prior to version 2.1.9.");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, nofork: TRUE))
exit(0);
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "2.1.9")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "2.1.9");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);