Vulnerability in Webdav Neon
CVE-2009-2473
neon before 0.28.6, when expat is used, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows context-dependent 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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.084 (94.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.084 · newest: 0.084 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Webdav Neon — versions 0.28.6
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.manyfish.co.uk/pipermail/neon/2009-August/001044.html (mailing-list)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9461 (signature, vdb-entry)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-11/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2341 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html (vendor-advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0131.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/36371 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-August/msg00945.html (vendor-advisory)