Vulnerability in Matthewwild Luaexpat

CVE-2011-2188

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.

EPSS: 0.017 (75.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.