CVE-2011-2188 — Luaexpat vulnerability
6 documents5 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
1.2%
top 21.08%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 21
Latest updateMay 17
Description
LuaExpat before 1.2.0 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.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2011-2188: lua-expat - LuaExpat before 1.2.0 does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion...↗2011