Vulnerability in Process-One Ejabberd
CVE-2011-1753
expat_erl.c in ejabberd before 2.1.7 and 3.x before 3.0.0-alpha-3, and exmpp before 0.9.7, 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.
EPSS: 0.021 (80.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Process-one Ejabberd — versions 0.9, 0.9.1, 0.9.8
- Process-one Exmpp — versions 0.9.1, 0.9.2, 0.9.3
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- secalert@redhat.com (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_FEDORA)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)