PRIOn knowledge basePRION:CVE-2011-2205Code injection
6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.7%
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.
References
blog.prosody.im/prosody-0-8-1-released/
hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/5305a665bdd4
hg.prosody.im/0.8/rev/ee6a18f10a8d
prosody.im/doc/release/0.8.1
secunia.com/advisories/44852
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/14/6
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/15/5
www.securityfocus.com/bid/48125
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67884
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6.5 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.024 Low
EPSS
Percentile
89.7%