CVE-2011-2205 — Prosody vulnerability
4 documents4 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
OSV6.5
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.08%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 22
Latest updateMay 17
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 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